America in the Twenties and Thirties : : The Olympian Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / / Sean Dennis Cashman.
In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1989] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 1989 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Driving Ambition: The Continuing Revolutions in Transportation -- 2. The 1920s: An American Dream That Became a Nightmare -- 3. The Incomplete Politics of the Republican Ascendancy -- 4. Snow in Harvest: The Onset of the Great Depression -- 5. Happy Days Are Here Again: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Early New Deal -- 6. Stormy Weather: The Later New Deal -- 7. A House Divided: Workers, Labor, and Ethnic Groups -- 8. What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? Black America -- 9. Sounds Impossible: The Golden Age of Radio -- 10. Seeing Is Deceiving: Hollywood and the Movies -- 11. Requiem, but No Peace: The Lost Generation and the Arts -- 12. Artistic License -- 13. New Horizons, Closed Frontiers: America in World Affairs After 1920 -- 14. "Who Is This Hitler, and What Does He Want?" Isolation and Intervention -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | In this, the third volume of an interdisciplinary history of the United States since the Civil War, Sean Dennis Cashman provides a comprehensive review of politics and economics from the tawdry affluence of the 1920s throught the searing tragedy of the Great Depression to the achievements of the New Deal in providing millions with relief, job opportunities, and hope before America was poised for its ascent to globalism on the eve of World War II. The book concludes with an account of the sliding path to war as Europe and Asia became prey to the ambitions of Hitler and military opportunists in Japan. The book also surveys the creative achievements of America's lost generation of artists, writers, and intellectuals; continuing innovations in transportation and communications wrought by automobiles and airplanes, radio and motion pictures; the experiences of black Americans, labor, and America's different classes and ethnic groups; and the tragicomedy of national prohibition. The cast of characters includes FDR, the New Dealers, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Norris, William E. Borah, Huey Long, Henry Ford, Clarence Darrow, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Orson Welles, Wendell Willkie, and the stars of radio and the silver screen. The first book in this series, America in the Gilded Age, is now accounted a classic for historiographical synthesis and stylisic polish. America in the Age of the Titans, covering the Progressive Era and World War I, and America in the Twenties and Thirties reveal the author's unerring grasp of various primary and secondary sources and his emphasis upon structures, individuals, and anecdotes about them. The book is lavishly illustrated with various prints, photographs, and reproductions from the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781479856114 9783110716924 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9781479856114.001.0001 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Sean Dennis Cashman. |