Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression /
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
[2004]
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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.