The Big Change

The New York Times –bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday . During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor of Harper’s magazine, recounts these years—spanning World War I, the Progressive Era