Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

by David E. Kyvig

Book Overview

The twenties and thirties witnessed dramatic changes in American life: increasing urbanization, technological innovation, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster. In this fascinating book, the prize-winning historian David E. Kyvig describes everyday life in these decades, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, when radio and the movies became broadly popular.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566635845
• ISBN13: 9781566635844
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"