The Modern Temper

An in-depth perspective of the transformative decade that was the American Jazz Age, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash. “[Dumenil] has captured the fire of this volcanic time and weaves together scores of social and political threads into an insightful overview.” — Publishers Weekly When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover—and of B