Only yesterday

an informal history of the nineteen-twenties in America

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Frederick Lewis Allen: Only yesterday (1938, Penguin Books)

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1938 by Penguin Books.

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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

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