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020 _a9781605987729
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035 _a(OCoLC)892878891
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043 _an-us---
049 _aNFGA
092 _a973.913
_bB967
100 1 _aBurns, Eric,
_eauthor.
_92505
245 1 0 _a1920 :
_bthe year that made the decade roar /
_cEric Burns.
246 3 _aNineteen-twenty
250 _aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bPegasus Books,
_c2015.
300 _axviii, 348 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-337) and index.
505 0 _a"Two sheets of flame" -- Homeland security -- The long, black night of the spirits -- Resolutions and sentiments -- Civil wrongs -- The robber barons and their serfs -- The beginning of Ponzi's dream -- The ignoble experiment -- Planning parenthood -- The end of Ponzi's scheme -- The closed door in the White House -- On the air -- The Ohio gangsters -- The investigation -- Uproar in the arts -- The "jass" age -- The flapper.
520 _aAcclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year of 1920, which was not only a crucial twelve-month period of its own, but one that foretold the future, foreshadowing the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.
650 0 _aNineteen twenty, A.D.
_9276691
651 0 _aUnited States
_xEconomic conditions
_y1918-1945.
_920972
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_y1919-1933.
_920973
651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial conditions
_y1918-1932.
_949680
942 _cBOOK
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