The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
by William E. Leuchtenburg
The Chicago History of American Civilization
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"This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban morally liberalized nation involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Beginning with Wilson and the entrance of the United States into World War I, Mr. Leuchtenburg covers the range of subsequent events: the fight over the League of Nations; the postwar Red scares and Palmer raids; the show more politics and foreign policy of the Harding and Coolidge administrations; the fate of progressivism in the twenties; the revolution in morals; the impact of the prosperity of the twenties on American character; the "political fundamentalism" which resulted in immigration restriction, the Scopes trial, Prohibition, and the Ku Klux Klan; Hoover and the early years of the depression--all reflecting the conflict between rural and urban attitudes that reached its crisis in the presidential campaign of 1928 and was finally settled as an aftermath of the collapse of 1929."--Back cover. show lessTags
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This liberal view of the interwar years (including US involvement in WWI) does a good job of telling a fascinating story through numbers.
2841 The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32, by William E. Leuchtenberg (read 21 Feb 1996) This is a 1958 book on the years 1914 to 1932, I thought I was familiar with that time's history, but even so I learned or relearned some things from this book. It tells how we got into the war, has a good chapter on the short-lived Red Scare, a chapter on Harding, and another one on "Tired Radicals", and chapters on trends in the 1920's. All in all, this has been a good book, even though since it is a part of The Chicago History of American Civilization it is a "commissioned book."
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Born in Ridgewood (Queens), New York, William Leuchtenburg is currently William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was educated at Cornell University and at Columbia University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1951. After teaching briefly at Smith College and Harvard University, he began show more a 30-year tenure on the faculty at Columbia, where he became De Witt Clinton Professor of American History in 1971. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the Society of American Historians, and most recently (1991) the American Historical Association. He has also been Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. Leuchtenburg is an expert on twentieth-century U.S. political history, especially the era of the New Deal. His book Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932--1940 (1963) won both the Bancroft and Parkman prizes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
- Original publication date
- 1964
- Important events
- World War I
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Economics
- DDC/MDS
- 330.973 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Jobs & Careers Economic geography and history North America United States
- LCC
- HC106.3 .L3957 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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- English
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