The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941: The essential events of American Life in the chaotic years between the two World Wars

by Isabel Leighton

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671200623
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Reading

22 short informative storys, I enjoyed this book very much, and learned some things along the way. No doubt you will learn and like this book also.

Candy for the brain

This book is just terrific. If you are interested in reading about the 20s and 30s, then you will certainly enjoy it. If you've never been interested in this period, then after reading this book, you might be! Articles range from what you might expect (albeit with a twist), like "Calvin Coolidge: A Study in Inertia" or "The Timely Death of President Harding." Others deal with subjects that made the news at the time, but are perhaps less well remembered today, such as the feats of Izzie and Moe (the Prohibition police), the Dionne quintuplets, and the wreck of the "Morro Castle." Some other topics included: Huey Long, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Crash, the first 100 days of the New Deal, Pearl Harbor Sunday, Wendell Wilkie, Versailles, Aimee Semple McPherson, the Lindberghs, the death of Starr Faithful, the night the Martians landed, the King and the girl from Baltimore. And there's still more...This book is also ideal to introduce the period to either high school of college students, or to use as background material. The teacher could either assign the book in its entirety or simply choose a few articles. It will make history come alive for kids.

History the Best Way: Straight from the Source

I first enjoyed this period in history, (United States, 20's and 30s), when I took my only upper division history class in the subject. Our professor stated his textbook principle quite clearly: "I only use primary sources, texts written by those that were there. I just don't believe in prefabricated history textbooks."I didn't read this book during that course, but when I ran across it in a used bookstore, I bought it for the same reason my professor chose his sources: all the essays are written by people close to the subject. In this collection, you can read about Jack Dempsey from his most famous opponent, Gene Tunney. Or who better to tell you about Huey P. Long, America's demagogue and fascist, than one of Louisiana's only newspaper editors who had the fortitude to stand up to him. All of the book's authors have such a close relationship to their subject matter, which makes this collection more reliable than others, and much more readable.

1919-1941 Encapsulated

This text is a collection of essays covering the years 1919 through 1941. The essays are an extremely eclectic collection that attempt to summarize the themes and events of the period. I first encountered this book in a reading discussion group at a Unitarian Church. The group of approximately ten people ranged in age from 22(me) to 80. For months we read and discussed the essays in this text. My love of essays as history and literature evolved from this collection. My love of discussion groups also evolved from this collection.