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Sign up for our monthly email alertsHistorical Dictionary from the Great War to the Great Depression
Series: Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras #1
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SUBJECTS
Military Studies » Military History
Reference » History
History » American History » Twentieth Century
History » American History » American History (General)
History » Military History
Reference » Military & Intelligence Studies
REVIEWS
"This is an informative and compact guide to twenty important years of American history. Part of a series, it includes a fourteen-page chronology, just over twenty pages of introduction, and a broad range of entries in the dictionary proper, most of which are relatively succinct and therefore useful. Neil Wynn has obviously made the sensible decision to include more names at the expense of individual entry length; precisely what one expects of a dictionary....Wynn strikes a good balance between information and overkill."
— HISTORY: THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
DESCRIPTION
This volume examines significant individuals and developments in American political, economic, social and cultural history between the years 1913 and 1933. It was a time of momentous change including involvement in World War I, the Red Scare, the Jazz Age, the Crash of 1929, and the onset of the Great Depression. It covers the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover and the shift from reformism to conservatism. Prohibition and gangsterism symbolized the apparent failure of politics.
The period witnessed the rise of new industries such as the automobile, chemicals, and electrical goods, and the growth of a mass consumer society. It was accompanied by mass entertainment with the rise of Hollywood, radio, and sport. Meanwhile the urban population exceeded the rural. For some, but far from all, during the earlier phase there was the charm of prosperity, but this was replaced by widespread hardship and suffering and a search for what had gone wrong.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Neil A. Wynn is professor in Twentieth Century American History at the University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. He has written and published numerous papers, articles, books, and radio and television documentaries on American history.
