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America in the Twenties and Thirties
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© 2022 New York University Press, New York, USA

© 2022 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Illustrations ix
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. I. Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation 5
  7. 2. The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare 40
  8. 3. The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy 84
  9. 4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression 109
  10. 5. Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal 145
  11. 6. Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal 179
  12. 7. A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups 219
  13. 8. What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America 257
  14. 9. Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio 304
  15. 10. Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies 339
  16. 11. Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts 383
  17. 12. Artistic License 455
  18. 13. New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920 494
  19. 14. "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention 536
  20. Sources 595
  21. Bibliography 597
  22. Index 617
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479856114.003.0001

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS vii
  3. Illustrations ix
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. I. Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation 5
  7. 2. The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare 40
  8. 3. The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy 84
  9. 4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression 109
  10. 5. Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal 145
  11. 6. Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal 179
  12. 7. A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups 219
  13. 8. What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America 257
  14. 9. Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio 304
  15. 10. Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies 339
  16. 11. Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts 383
  17. 12. Artistic License 455
  18. 13. New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920 494
  19. 14. "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention 536
  20. Sources 595
  21. Bibliography 597
  22. Index 617
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