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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 23: The 1920s, 1920-1928
Frederick Lewis Allen. Only Yesterday: An
Informal History of the 1920s (1931).
A sprightly account of life in the 1920s, filled
with amusing and intriguing anecdotes, written immediately after the decade
ended.
Nathan Irvin Huggins. Harlem Renaissance
(1971).
A thorough and thoughtful work that places
the Harlem Renaissance into the larger context of race relations in the 1920s.
Lester D. Langley. The Banana Wars: United
States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934. (1983, reprint, 1988).
A good, concise survey of the topic, from the
war with Spain until the withdrawal of the last marine in 1934.
Edward J. Larson. Summer for the Gods: The
Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1997).
The most recent scholarly treatment of the
Scopes Trial, emphasizing both science and law.
William E. Leuchtenburg. The Perils of Prosperity,
1914-1932, 2nd edn. (1993).
An excellent survey of the era.
Jules Tygiel. The Great Los Angeles Swindle:
Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties (1996).
An engagingly written account of
Los Angeles in the 1920s.
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