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"The fifties, merely a confused prelude to the grandeur of Camelot, or a decade with an identify all its own? A period of determined ant-intellectualism and stagnation, or an era of thoughtful rationalism that left behind a legacy of humanity and hope? Another part of the fifties rescues this much maligned decade from the oblivion to which it has undeservedly been consigned. Far from being stagnant, Paul Carter argues, the fifties had a richness,...
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American infatuation with the 1920s continues. As the time interval since that decade gets longer, interest grows greater. Were the Twenties a "side show," a quaint but irrelevant detour off the main road of history highlighted by The Lost Generation, Prohibition, The Golden Age of Sport, and The Jazz Age? Or were they, on the contrary, the first clear evidence of what we mean by "modern?" In this new study, Paul A. Carter brings together a collection...