American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 22: THE NEW ERA

Bibliography

Books

General Studies. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday (1931). John Braeman, Robert Bremner, and David Brody, eds., Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The 1920s (1968). Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995). Ellis Hawley, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order (1979). John D. Hicks, Republican Ascendancy (1960). Isabel Leighton, ed., The Aspirin Age (1949). Donald R. McCoy, Coming of Age (1973). Michael Parrish, Anxious Decades: American in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992). Geoffrey Perrett, America in the Twenties (1982). Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order (1957). George Soule, Prosperity Decade: From War to Depression (1947).

Labor, Agriculture, and Economic Growth. Stephen B. Adams and Orville R. Butler, Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric (1999). Guy Alchon, The Invisible Hand of Planning: Capitalism, Social Science, and the State in the 1920s (1985). Janet R. Daly Bednarek, America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947 (2001). Irving Bernstein, The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920--1933 (1960). David Brody, Steelworkers in America (1960); Workers in Industrial America (1980). Lendol Calder, Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (1999). Alfred Chandler, Strategy and Structure (1962). Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990). Gail Cooper, Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900-1960. (1998). Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (1994). Gilbert C. Fite, George Peek and the Fight for Farm Parity (1954); American Farmers: The New Minority (1981). Louis Galambos, Competition and Cooperation (1966). Louis Galambos and Joseph Pratt, The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth: U.S. Business and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (1988). Peter Gottlieb, Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916--1930 (1987). William E. Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity (rev. ed. 1994). Richard Longstreth, The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 (1999). Jim Potter, The American Economy Between the Wars (1974). Theodore Saloutos and John D. Hicks, Twentieth Century Populism (1951). Tom Sitton and William Deverell, ed., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001). George Soule, Prosperity Decade (1947). Sharon Hartman Strom, Beyond the Typewriter: Gender, Class, and the Origins of Modern American Office Work, 1900-1930 (1992). Mira Wilkins, The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad from 1914 to 1970 (1974). Leslie Woodcock, Wage-Earning Women (1979). Gerald Zahavi, Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism (1988). Robert Zieger, Republicans and Labor (1969).

The New Culture. Erik Barnouw, A Tower in Babel: A History of American Radio to 1933 (1966). Kenneth J. Bindas, Swing, That Modern Sound (2001). Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (1973). Paul Carter, The Twenties in America (1968); Another Part of the Twenties (1977). George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994). Stanley Coben, Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America (1991). Ed Cray, Chrome Colossus (1980). Robert Creamer, Babe (1974). Kenneth S. Davis, The Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh (1959). Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (1995); Susan J. Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting (1987). Ronald Edsforth, Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society: Flint, Michigan (1987). Melvin Patrick Ely, The Adventures of Amos `n Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon (1991). Stewart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness (1976). James J. Flink, The Car Culture (1975); The Automobile Age (1988). Stephen Fox, The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984). Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994). Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1988). Jay A. Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (1999). Harvey Green, Fit for America (1986). Allen Guttmann, A Whole New Ball Game (1988). Sumiko Higashi, Virgins, Vamps, and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine (1978). Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875--1940 (1985). William Howland Kenney, Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 (1999). Angela J. Latham, Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s (2000). William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993). T.J. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994). Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd, Middletown (1929). Roland Marchand, Advertising the American Dream (1985). Lary May, Screening Out the Past (1980). Fred J. McDonald, Don't Touch That Dial (1979). Clay McShane, Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (1994). Zane Miller, The Urbanization of America (1973). Linda Mizejewski, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema (1999). Kathy H. Ogren, The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz (1989). Michael Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created and American Spectacle (1993). Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements (1986). Daniel Pope, The Making of Modern Advertising (1983). Randy Roberts, Jack Dempsey, The Manassa Mauler (1979). Philip T. Rosen, The Modern Stentors: Radio Broadcasting and the Federal Government, 1920--1933 (1980). Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture (1992). Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America (1975). Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, Smithsonian Institution Press (1994). Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989). Bernard A. Weisberger, The Dream Maker (1979).

Women, Family, and Youth. W. Andrew Achenbaum, Shades of Gray: Old Age, American Values, and Federal Policies Since 1920 (1983). Beth L. Bailey, From Back Porch to Front Seat (1988). Lois Banner, American Beauty (1983). Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures (1986). William H. Chafe, The American Woman: Her Changing Social and Political Roles (1972). Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America (1992). Howard P. Chudacoff, How Old Are You? Age in American Culture (1989). Nancy Cott, The Grounding of American Feminism (1987). Ruth Schwarz Cowan, More Work for Mother (1983). John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Friedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (1988). Paula Fass, The Damned and Beautiful (1977). David H. Fischer, Growing Old in America (1977). Andrea Friedman, Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945. (2000). Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right (1976). Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (1987). Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in America (1982); In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America (2003). Angela J. Latham, Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s (2000). J. Stanley Lemons, The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s (1973). Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (1994). Ruth Oldenziel, Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945 (1999). Sheila Rothman, Woman's Proper Place (1978). Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed (1980). Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel (1991). Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (1982). Winifred Wandersee, Women's Work and Family Values, 1920--1940 (1981). Renold Wilk, Henry Ford and Grass Roots America (1972).

Intellectuals and the Arts. Charles C. Alexander, Here the Country Lies: Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth Century America (1980). Houston Baker, Jr., Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987). Loren Baritz, ed. , The Culture of the Twenties (1970). Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963). Paul Conkin, The Southern Agrarians (1988). Malcolm Cowley, Exiles Return (1934). Robert Crunden, From Self to Society: Transition in American Thought, 1919--1941 (1972). George H. Douglas, H. L. Mencken (1978). Frederick J. Hoffman, The Twenties (1949). Nathan I. Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (1971). Gloria T. Hull, Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (1987). David L. Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981). John E. Moser, Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars (1999). Roderick Nash, The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917--1930 (1969). John Stewart, The Burden of Time (1965). Kenneth M. Wheeler and Virginia L. Lussier, eds., Women, the Arts, and the 1920s in Paris and New York (1982). Edmund Wilson, The Twenties (1975).

Cultural Conflicts. Charles C. Alexander, The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest (1965). Paul Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (1991). Herbert Asbury, The Great Illusion (1950). Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (1991). David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism (1965). Norman Clark, Deliver Us from Evil (1976). Elton C. Fax, Garvey (1972). Glenn Feldman, Politics, Society and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 (1999). Norman Furniss, The Fundamentalist Controversy (1954). Ray Ginger, Six Days or Forever? (1958). Joseph Gusfeld, Symbolic Crusade (1963). Andrew Gyory, Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1998). John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1963). Izumi Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. (2001). Nathan I. Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (1971). Kenneth Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the City (1965). K. Austin Kerr, Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League (1985). Don Kirschner, City and Country: Rural Responses to Urbanization in the 1920s (1970). Lawrence Levine, Defender of the Faith, William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915--1925 (1965). Nancy MacLean, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994). George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980). William G. McLoughlin, Modern Revivalism (1959). Leonard Moore, Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928 (1991). Rick Ostrander, The Life of Prayer in a World of Science: Protestants, Prayer, and American Culture 1870-1930 (2000). George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993). Andrew Sinclair, The Era of Excess (1962). Mark Solomon, The Cry was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 (1998). Richard K. Tucker, The Dragon and the Cross: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Middle America (1991). Theodore Vincent, Black Power and the Garvey Movement (1971).

Politics and Government. Kristi Andersen, The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928--1936 (1979). LeRoy Ashby, Spearless Leader (1972). Christine Bolt, American Indian Policy and American Reform (1987). David Burner, The Politics of Provincialism (1967). David Burner, Herbert Hoover (1979). E. Paula Elder, Governor Alfred E. Smith: The Politician as Reformer (1983). Frank Freidel, Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal (1954); Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph (1956). James N. Giglio, H. M. Daugherty and the Politics of Expediency (1978). James Gilbert, Designing the Industrial State (1972). Dewey W. Grantham, The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds (1994). Oscar Handlin, Al Smith and His America (1958). William Harbaugh, Lawyer's Lawyer (1973). Ellis Hawley, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice (1974). Robert Herzstein, Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who Created the American Century (1994). Robert F. Himmelberg, The Origins of the National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association Issue, 1921--1933 (1976). Morton Keller, Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, 1900-1933 (1990); Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900- 1933 (1994). Alan Lichtman, Prejudice and the Old Politics (1979). Richard Lowitt, George W. Norris, vol. 2 (1971). Carol R. McCann, Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (1994). Donald R. McCoy, Calvin Coolidge (1967). Robert K. Murray, The Politics of Normalcy (1973); The Harding Era (1969). Burl Noggle, Teapot Dome (1962). Elisabeth Israels Perry, Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith (1987). Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove (1968). Andrew Sinclair, The Available Man (1965). David P. Thelen, Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit (1978). George B. Tindall, The Emergence of the New South (1967). Eugene Trani and David Wilson, The Presidency of Warren G. Harding (1977). G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (1993). William Allen White, A Puritan in Babylon (1940). John Hoff Wilson, Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (1975).

Films

Alfred Sloan & Corporate Bureaucracy (U-Matic, 1981). Coney Island (PBS Video, 1990). Herbert Hoover and Political Capitalism" (U-Matic, 1981). Matewan (Cinecom Entertainment Group and Film Gallery, 1987). Mr. Sears' Catalogue (PBS Video, American Experience, 1997). That Rhythm, Those Blues (PBS Video, American Experience, 1997).

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