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Discontented America, the United States in the 1920s, David J. Goldberg

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-204) and index

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non fiction

Discontented America

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David J. Goldberg

"Too often, notes historian David Goldberg, the mythic allure of the "Roaring Twenties" has deafened our ears to the real voices of those who lived through the decade. In Discontented America, he integrates social and political history to provide a new take on the 1920s - an account deeply rooted in the perspectives of that time. Goldberg argues that this contentious and fascinating decade should be viewed now as it was viewed then, as a distinctive postwar period, during which many of the conflicts generated by World War I continued to reverberate throughout American society."--Jacket

The American moment

the United States in the 1920s

Progressivism and the war -- The United States faces the postwar world -- Anything but "normal": postwar American politics and the demise of progressivism -- Capital triumphant: the postwar decline of the American labor movement -- African Americans in the postwar period -- The rapid rise and the swift decline of the Ku Klux Klan -- Nordics to the front: the 1924 National Origins Act -- The New Era and the presidential election of 1928