Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939
Subtitle: Decades of Promise and Pain (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: November 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780313295553
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Social History; United States - 20th Century/20s; United States - 20th Century/Depression; History / United States / 20th Century; Sociology - General; United States - General; 1918-1932; 1918-1945; Nineteen thirties; Nineteen twenties; Social conditions; Social life and customs; United States
Description: "The 1920s and 1930s saw dramatic changes in the American population, as increasing urbanization, innovations in technology, cultural upheaval, and economic disaster exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people. Explore how everyday living changed during these years when use of automobiles and home electrification first became commonplace, when radio emerged, and when cinema, with the addition of sound, became broadly popular.

Find out how work life, domestic life, and leisure-time activities were affected by these factors as well as by the politics of the time. Details of matters such as the creation of the pickup truck, the development of radio programming, and the first mass use of cosmetics provide an enjoyable read that brings the era of "The Roaring Twenties" and "The Great Depression" clearly into focus."--BOOK JACKET.