The Dollar Decade
Subtitle: Mammon and the Machine in 1920s America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: March 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780275977955
Subjects: American history; History - U.S.; History: American; The Americas; USA; Economic History; United States - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century/20s; History / United States / 20th Century; Americas (North Central South West Indies); 1918-1945; 20th century; Dollar, American; Economic conditions; History; Social life and customs; United States
First sentence: At the end of the decade, Joseph Wood Krutch wrote that morality and emotional lives reflected a world that no longer existed, that insofar as people adhered to a code of conduct they did so from habit, not because they could give any logical reason for it.