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Babbitts and Bohemians from the Great War to the Great Depression
By Elizabeth Stevenson
Copyright 1998
316 Pages
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Routledge
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Babbitts and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Elizabeth Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the one hand, it was an era of sameness and political conformity, but on the other hand, it was also a time of cultural revolt. In places labeled Main Street and Middletown the citizenry followed a... Read more
I: Identity of a Decade; II: The Years Before; III: The Experience of the War; IV: The Unresolved Peace; V: Symptoms of the New; VI: Harding’s Time; VII: Surface Solutions; VIII: A Sufficient Freedom; IX: The Evolution of the Flapper; X: The Year Nothing Happened; XI: How Some People Lived; XII: High Twenties; XIII: The Election of Hoover; XIV: The Crash; XV: The Libertarians
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Stevenson, Elizabeth
