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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Name: Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
ISBN: 0060956658

Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in

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“The explanation is simple. A disillusioned nation fed on cheap heroics and scandal and crime were revolting against the low estimate of human nature it had allowed itself to entertain.”

— Frederick Lewis Allen, amazon.com

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“He pictured the world, not as it was, but as he wished it to be. The optimist became the sentimentalist.”

— Frederick Lewis Allen, amazon.com

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