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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s

By Frederick Lewis Allen

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Year
2010
ISBN
0060956658, 9780060956653
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
297 kB (303677 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
352\0
Time added
2019-06-18 09:20:45

Description

“A style that is verve itself.” —New York Times “A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” —Chicago Daily Tribune From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief ofHarper’smagazine, comes a classic history of 1920s America, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash and the beginning of The Great Depression. Originally published in 1931,Only Yesterdayhas an exuberance and proximity to its subject—the Roaring Twenties in all its scandal and glory—that uniquely captures the feel of the era.

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