The 1920s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wukovits, John F., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2000]
Series:America's decades.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Stock market madness / by Cabell Phillips
  • Unfit for the job : the presidency of Warren G. Harding / by Edmund Stillman
  • "Keep cool with Coolidge" : the hands-off approach of President Calvin Coolidge / by Paul Sann
  • The Great Crash ends an era of prosperity / by Edwin P. Hoyt
  • The Ku Klux Klan strengthens its hand / by Arnold S. Rice
  • Segregation in housing : a case study / by John F. Wukovits
  • A jailed teacher : John Scopes and the antievolution law / by Don Nardo
  • Sacco guilty, Vanzetti innocent? / by Francis Russell
  • Prohibition dries up a thirsty nation / by Page Smith
  • An amazing pair of Prohibition agents / by Herbert Asbury
  • America ignores the law / by Edward Behr
  • Women enjoy a new morality / by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • The growth of black pride / by Geoffrey Perrett
  • Film comedy comes of age in the 1920's / by Gerald Mast and Bruce F. Kawin
  • An epic feat : Gertrude Ederle swims the Channel / by Susan Ware
  • A musical explosion / by Page Smith
  • Automobiles fuel the transportation revolution / by Fon W. Boardman Jr.
  • Charles Lindbergh crosses an ocean / by Walter S. Ross
  • The nation plummets into the abyss of depression / by Robert Goldston
  • A merciful end to a failed experiment / by Herbert Asbury.