Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's

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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s By: Frederick Lewis Allen People today have made categorizing history by decades a quite popular pastime. In fact, it has become so popular that one could not possibly go about thinking of a ten-year increment without associating it with a specific label given to that era. Each era of American history has its own character, its own personality, which is represented by events, innovations and vital shifts …

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…choose an era in history to realistically travel back in time to, this decade of great growth and prosperity would be the era to choose. Never has there been such an account that illustrates such a thesis so profoundly as Frederick Lewis Allen’s has. Indeed that is why, of course, his highly celebrated historical treasure Only Yesterday has been chosen as an investment classic by publishers such as John Wiley and Sons! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**