In response to this new asset of life - more free in many respects - people expectations changed as well, so that to a material change correspond a more `spiritual' one.Ī couple of long chapters in the middle of the book deal with the way life moved in the short run (everyday life) and in the long run (a year around portrait of life). Things that already existed, but now became so widely common to change the way people worked as well as they used their free time. The first few chapters deal with the three more important innovations in the decade: the car, the radio and electricity. The book starts off with a picture of the United States at the closing of WWI, a portrait that tries to take in as diverse situations as possible, with a heavy help form the statistics of the Census (statistics are a great part of this book, which if on one hand grounds the matter in an objective perspective, on the other comes across as dry in many places) and some anthropological studies of the period.īecause the Twenties are essentially years of big changes, regarding so many ways of life, this is where the book focuses. It focuses primarily on the Twenties, but there is a good long cue on the Thirties too. This is a very good introduction to the social history of the Stats between the two World Wars.
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