New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America

The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of organized crime. Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Publishers Weekly calls it an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled, and tempestuous decade, and Jonathan Yardley's Washington Post review proclaimed this the new classic history of the 1920s, replacing Frederick Lewis Allen's celebrated account.Using the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a backdrop, Miller describes the world of Calvin Coolidge, H. L. Mencken, Woodrow Wilson, and the Red Scare in extraordinarily accessible (and frequently witty) writing, New World Coming is destined to become the book we all turn to to recall one of the most beloved eras in American history.

Author: Nathan Miller
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 07/28/2004
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.12w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9780306813795
ISBN10: 0306813793
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | World | General

About the Author
Nathan Miller is an award-winning journalist and the author of twelve works of history and biography, including Broadside: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815, FDR: An Intimate History, and War at Sea. He lives in Washington, D.C.