audiobook Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown; Written by Himself by From Brand: The University of North Carolina Press in History

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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.