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Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression
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- Creator
- David E. Kyvig
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781566635844, 1566635845
- OCLC
- ocm54611224
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.
- The circumstances of American life in 1920 -- Automobiles and the construction of daily life -- Electricity and the conditions of daily life -- Radio and the connecting of daily lives -- Cinema and the extension of experience -- Carrying on day by day : life's basics -- Carrying on year by year : making a life -- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life -- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life -- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression -- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government indaily life -- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s