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Book SynopsisA principal theme of the 1920s was paradox, and Professor Carter explains the tensions that existed between city and country, progress and nostalgia for the past, progressive attitudes and the persistence of bigotry. Carter also provides incisive reevaluations of some archetypal figures of the era, such as Coolidge, Lindbergh, and Hemingway, and suggests new ways of considering events and developments such as jazz, popular sports, the Scopes trial, and isolationism.
Table of ContentsOne: Of Bohemians and Consumers 1
Lost Generation, or Joyful Pioneers? 3
Radicalism Rampant, or Conservatism Triumphant? 11
Sports, Jazz, and Other Vocations 21
Two: Of Coolidge and Hemingway 35
The Talkative President—and the Critics 39
Big Society and Belittled Religion 50
The Hero in an Unheroic Age 59
Three: Of Town and Country 71
The Peerless Leader and the Gotham Cockney 76
The Ape in the Tree of Knowledge 83
Megalopolis versus Gopher Prairie 92
Suggestions for Further Study 106
Index 117
