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Only Yesterday
Informal Treatment of the 1920s
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| by Frederick Lewis Allen
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Product code: 5803 ISBN: 0471189529,
ISBN13: 9780471189527,
300 pages, paperback, published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, New edition edition, 1997
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| Description of Only Yesterday |
| Written in 1931, this new installment in the Wiley Investment Classics series offers a well-written historical and anecdotal account of the volatile stock market of the 1920s. It traces the rise of post World War I prosperity up to the crash of 1929 before a colorful backdrop that includes Al Capone, Prohibition, the first radio, and the rise and fall of the skirt length. |
| Contents of Only Yesterday |
1. Prelude: May, 1919
2. Back To Normalcy
3. The Big Red Scare
4. America Convalescent
5. The Revolution in Manners and Morals
6. Harding and the Scandals
7. Coolidge Prosperity
8. The Ballyhoo Years
9. The Revolt of The Highbrows
10. Alcohol and Al Capone
11. Home, Sweet Florida
12. The Big Bull Market
13. Crash!
14. Aftermath: 1930 - 31
Appendix: Sources and Obligations |
| About Frederick Lewis Allen |
| FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN was a noted author and historian whose other widely acclaimed works include Since Yesterday: The Nineteen Thirties in America and Great Pierpont Morgan. |
| Reviews of Only Yesterday |
"Marvelously absorbing...Only Yesterday tells the story of the 1920's from the collapse of Wilson and the New Federation to the collapse of Wall Street and the New Era."
- Stuart Chase, Books
"A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism."
- Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune |
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