The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s AUTH-13191544 Published: 09/12/2008

Published: 09/12/2008

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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s AUTH-13191544 Published: 09/12/2008Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age. 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