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The New Era - American Thought and Culture in the 1920s (Paperback)
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The New Era - American Thought and Culture in the 1920s (Paperback)
Series: American Thought and Culture
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In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as "modern," which is
to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what
went before-a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of
dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the
Victorian era into modernity. The New Era provides a history of
American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of
American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as
gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of
openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the
gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics
alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity
and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book
tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made
culture the essential terrain of social and political action and
who framed a new set of arguments and debates-over women's roles,
sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race,
democracy, religion, and values-that would define American public
life for fifty years.
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