Author:
McClymer, John F. author.
Edition Statement:Second edition.
ImprintHoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
Descriptionvii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Modernity and its discontents: a frame for understanding twentieth-century America -- The second Ku Klux Klan -- The declension of Evangelical Protestantism: the Scopes trial, fundamentalism, and pentacostalism -- What Sadie knew: the immigrant working girl and th rise of a demotic culture -- The "seven lively arts" revisited: the demotic impulse in popular culture -- Passing from light into dark -- Revues and other vanities: the commodification of fantasy in the 1920s -- The Great Depression and the New Deal -- World War II.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This book tells how Americans struggled with modernity in both its cultural and economic forms between the start of World War I and the end of World War II, focusing on the 1920s through 1930s. This edition includes revisions that expand the scope and features increased coverage of topics that will be of great interest to new readers as well as those familiar with the subject.
