The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780809015665)

Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age.

When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression.

But the 1920s were much more. 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. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.

Author: Lynn Dumenil, Dumenil
ISBN-10: 0809015668
ISBN-13: 9780809015665
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1995
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/1995 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 04/24/1995 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1995 pg. 525