Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kyvig, David E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2004]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The circumstances of American life in 1920
  • Automobiles and the construction of daily life
  • Electricity and the conditions of daily life
  • Radio and the connecting of daily lives
  • Cinema and the extension of experience
  • Carrying on day by day : life's basics
  • Carrying on year by year : making a life
  • Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life
  • Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life
  • Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression
  • Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government in daily life
  • Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s.