The modern temper
Subtitle: American culture and society in the 1920s
By: Lynn Dumenil ; consulting editor, Eric Foner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945; United States -- History -- 1919-1933
Description: "Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index.