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1920 - The Year that Made the Decade Roar (Paperback)
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1920 - The Year that Made the Decade Roar (Paperback)
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Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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"The Roaring Twenties" is the only decade in American history with
a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this
era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural
milestones emerge out of the ashes of The Great War? No one has yet
written a book about the decade's beginning. Acclaimed author Eric
Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial
twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future,
foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of
the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market
crash that brought this era to a close. Burns sets the record
straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods.
Despite being the first full year of armistice, 1920 was not, in
fact, a peaceful time-it contained the greatest act of terrorism in
American history to date. And while 1920 is thought of as starting
a prosperous era, for most people, life had never been more
unaffordable. Meanwhile, African Americans were putting their stamp
on culture and though people today imagine the frivolous image of
the flapper dancing the night away, the truth was that a new kind
of power had been bestowed on women, and it had nothing to do with
the dance floor. . . From prohibition to immigration, the birth of
jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi
scheme, 1920 was truly a year like no other.
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