America in the Twenties: A History

by Geoffrey Perret and Geoffrey Perrett

Book Overview

A detailed, revisionist chronicle of key events & developments in the USA during the 1920s & the 30s focuses on the crosscurrents of change & innovation that transformed the nation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671251074
• ISBN13: 9780671251079
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 585 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant.

Fantastic history book on America during the nineteen twenties, blew Frederick Lewis Allen's book out of the water...thorough chapters on the labor movement, the left, immigration, unions and the I.W.W., Post WWI issues, corporate crime, Pinkertons, the Woman's Suffrage Movement, Bohemian New York, the Klu Klux Klan epidemic, major social and political upheavals, sexual revolution, Margaret Sanger and contraceptives, the progressive, conservative and often times corrupt Presidential Administrations, and the changing winds of International Relations. Written beautifully, a kiss to the fingertips, can't wait to read Perret's other history's.

Unlike any history book

This is the first history book that got me laughing.. now is it the events or the writer? Every decade should have such a book on it, but it might not be this interesting. So many things happened in the time being referred to .. some unthinkable.All the interesting things have been caught right in their element. Getting the essence of big events in small chapters, really worked. What I like about this book is that there's a very human aspect to the events.. that later are remembered as major things or history. I refer to things like the mention of exact revelatory moment, that caused Margaret Sanger to work towards birth control movement. The chapter 'Help!' on Ford is as good as it can get. 'Crosswords' is my favorite as it is on writers. With so many different subjects.. its like fruits and nuts in the cereal of history.. The Denver Post is right in saying.."You wont put this down.." about this book.