{"product_id":"the-new-era-paul-v-murphy-9780742549265","title":"The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s","description":"In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as \"modern,\" which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before--a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American intellectuals determined to move beyond an older role as gatekeepers of cultural respectability and become tribunes of openness, experimentation, and tolerance instead. Recognizing the gap between themselves and the mainstream public, younger critics alternated between expressions of disgust at American conformity and optimistic pronouncements of cultural reconstruction. The book tracks the emergence of a new generation of intellectuals who made culture the essential terrain of social and political action and who framed a new set of arguments and debates--over women's roles, sex, mass culture, the national character, ethnic identity, race, democracy, religion, and values--that would define American public life for fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul V. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0742549267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780742549265\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Paul V. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054859448575,"sku":"9780742549265","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ab75fea-05c1-4c24-a32e-0a83966f9e07.jpg?v=1685032400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-era-paul-v-murphy-9780742549265","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}