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Only Yesterday
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Only Yesterday
By Frederick Lewis Allen
The Big Red Scare and Ku Klux Klan; Prohibition, Al Capone, Racketeers, and speakeasies; Harding Scandals and Coolidge Prosperity; Lindbergh, Freud, and Red Grange; Mah Jong, radio, Model A Fords; Women’s Suffrage, Flappers, and Jazz; and of course, Black Tuesday constitute only a fraction of the events, figures, and trends that characterized the Post-World War I decade revealed in historian Frederick Lewis Allen’s classic novel Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. Capturing the zeitgeist and happenings after the signing of the Armistice until the devastating crash of the Big Bull Market, Only Yesterday provides a vivid account of the tumultuous period in American history fittingly dubbed the “Roaring `20’s”.
In Only Yesterday Allen points out that the events of the 1920’s, and history in general, revolve around the human psychology: how it’s affected by events and then subsequently influences future events and emotions. ... In addition, Only Yesterday reasons that it was America’s desire for isolation from European countries and need for “normalcy” that influenced their vote for the incompetent; America favored Warren Harding over the globally concerned Woodrow Wilson during the 1920 elections.
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Title: Only Yesterday
Words: 951
Rating: None
Pages: 3.8
submitted by: bananaman123
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