Contributor
Wukovits, John F., 1944-
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Stock market madness / Cabell Phillips - Unfit for the job: the presidency of Warren G. Harding / Edmund Stillman - "Keep cool with Coolidge"-- the hands-off approach of President Calvin Coolidge / Paul Sann - The great crash ends an era of prosperity / Edwin P. Hoyt - The Ku Klux Klan strengthens its hand / Arnold S. Rice - Segregation in housing: a case study / John F. Wukovits - A jailed teacher: John Scopes and the antievolution law / Don Nardo - Sacco guilty, Vanzetti innocent? / Francis Russel - Prohibition dries up a thirsty nation / Page Smith - An Amazing pair of prohibition agents Herbert Asbury - America ignores the law / Edward Behr - Women enjoy a new morality / Frederick Lewis Allen - The growth of black pride / Geoffrey Perrett - Film comedy comes of age in the 1920s / Gerald Mast, Bruce F. Kavin. - An epic feat: Gertrude Ederle swims the Channel / Susan Ware - A musical explosion / Page Smith - Automobiles fuel the transportation revolution / Fon W. Boardman, Jr. - Charles Lindbergh crosses an ocean / Walter S. Ross - The nation plummets into the abyss of depression / Robert Goldston - A merciful end to a failed experiment / Herbert Asbury.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
