Only yesterday

an informal history of the nineteen-twenties.

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Frederick Lewis Allen: Only yesterday (1957, Harper)

370 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1957 by Harper.

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A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh, as well as Capone, Ford, Babe Ruth, the Teapot Dome, and bathtub gin.

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Subjects

  • Nineteen twenties
  • United States -- History -- 1919-1933
  • United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945
  • United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945
  • United States -- History -- 1919-1933
  • United States -- Social conditions
  • United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945