Only Yesterday

A history of roaring prosperity—and economic cataclysm: “The one account of America in the 1920s against which all others must be measured” ( The Washington Post ). Beginning November 11, 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson declared the end of World War I in a letter to the American public, and continuing through his defeat, Prohibition, the Big Red Scare, the rise of women’s hemlines, and the stock market crash of 1929, Only Yesterday , published just two years after the crash, chronicles a dec