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Loading... Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sby Frederick Lewis Allen
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I found it amazing that one could write a history so soon afterwards with such analytical insight . It was a wonderful summary of the decade which made the reader feel what it would have felt like to live through the decade. Excellent (  ) snash | Sep 9, 2009 |  worldsedge | May 8, 2008 | This is a great historical book, written shortly after the 1920s was over. It gives a great overall history of the 1920s in America. Great read! (  ) Angelic55blonde | Jun 29, 2007 | I read this book for the first time in my teens. It helped me to see that history is about people and their day to day lives. That was a very useful lesson that helped spark my fascination with history. ( )1  wildbill | Dec 16, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Only Yesterday deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and morals, the bull market and its smash-up. Allen's lively narrative brings back an endless variety of half-forgotten events, fashions, crazes, and absurdities. Deftly written, with a humorous touch, Only Yesterday traces, beneath the excitements of day-to-day life in the 20s, those currents in national life and thought which are the essence of true history.
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