![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chronicling what he views as the most consequential decade of the past century, Nathan Miller - an award-winning journalist and five-time Pulitzer nominee - paints a vivid portrait of the 1920s, focusing on the men and women who shaped that extraordinary time, including, ironically, three of America's most conservative presidents: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. Bookended by the easy living of the Jazz Age, when the booze and money flowed seemingly without end, and the crash of '29 that led to breadlines and a level of human suffering not seen since World War I, New World Coming is a lively, entertaining, and all-encompassing chronological account of an age that defined America. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination: jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic.īut it was also the era of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, widespread social conflict, and the birth of organized crime. "To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble our own era, at the turn of the twenty-first century in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses.Much of what we consider contemporary actually began in the Twenties." ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. ![]()
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