Discover what made the Twenties roar with this sensational retrospective. Ranging from the end of the First World War to the New Deal, it portrays the lawless era in which old traditions were discarded and the nation went on a binge that changed American life forever. This colorful and informative year-by-year jaunt through the 1920s covers politics, crime, arts, sports, society, and culture. Hundreds of photographs depict the era's most noteworthy events and personalities, including gangsters, flappers, and movie stars.
Written by a former executive editor of the New York ...
Discover what made the Twenties roar with this sensational retrospective. Ranging from the end of the First World War to the New Deal, it portrays the lawless era in which old traditions were discarded and the nation went on a binge that changed American life forever. This colorful and informative year-by-year jaunt through the 1920s covers politics, crime, arts, sports, society, and culture. Hundreds of photographs depict the era's most noteworthy events and personalities, including gangsters, flappers, and movie stars.
Reprint of the Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1957 edition.
- Price: $19.95
- Pages: 240
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Imprint: Dover Publications
- Publication Date: 8th November 2012
- Trim Size: 8.25 x 11 in
- ISBN: 9780486130781
- Format: eBook
- BISACs: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Longtime Executive Editor of the New York Post, Paul Sann wrote seven nonfiction books chronicling postwar American life.
The Lawless Decade: A Pictorial History Of A Great American Transition: From The World War 1 Armistice And Probibition To Repeal And The New Deal Summary
The Lawless Decade: A Pictorial History Of A Great American Transition: From The World War 1 Armistice And Probibition To Repeal And The New Deal by Paul Sann
1958. This edition. 240 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth. Black & white illustrations. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Unequal tanning to endpaper corresponding with jacket flaps. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Water marking present.
The lawless decade : a pictorial history of a great American transition: from the World War I armistice and prohibition to repeal and the New Deal
- The LawlessDecade
- Bullets, Broads and Bathtub Gin
- By Paul Sann
- Introduction by Howard V. Sann
- $19.95
- Publication Date: 8th November 2012
The Lawless Decade: A Pictorial History Of A Great American Transition: From The World War 1 Armistice And Probibition To Repeal And The New Deal
by Paul Sann
Written by a former executive editor of the New York Post, this pictorial history offers candid, entertaining appraisals that recapture the riotous spirit of the decade. Fascinating vignettes chronicle the rise of speakeasies and bootleggers, the proliferation of dance crazes, high-speed automobiles, and Ponzi schemes, and dramatic incidents such as Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Scopes Monkey Trial. A century later, readers will find a familiar resonance in these chronicles of a scandal-ridden and celebrity-obsessed culture.