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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Frederick Lewis Allen, Harper & Brothers, 1931. Thesis Statement Frederick Lewis Allen’s Only Yesterday argues that the 1920s constituted a decisive rupture in American life—a decade in which the swift forces of mass consumerism, urbanization, new media, and sexual liberation … Continue reading →

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