The plastic age (1917-1930)
| Main Author: | Sklar, Robert, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
G. Braziller,
[1970]
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 344 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
American culture ;
7. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-344). Introduction / Robert Sklar -- Change comes to Gopher Prairie / Sinclair Lewis -- What the movies taught -- Ideals and idols -- America on the road / Robert S. Lynd, Helen Merrell Lynd -- Radio fans talk back / Graham McNamee -- Simplicity sells / Kenneth M Goode, Harford Powel Jr. -- What to buy and why -- The dream of a national culture / Van Wyck Brooks -- Idealists in battle / Randolph Bourne -- A premiere in Paris / Bravig Imbs -- The aesthetics of industry -- A show on one-man acts / Edmund Wilson -- No ideas but in things / Louis Zukofsky -- The black migration northward / Charles S. Johnson -- Faces of Harlem / Winold Reiss -- The fate of the melting pot / Horace M. Kallen -- A wet nation with dry laws / Walter W. Liggett -- Rule by the underworld / John Landesco -- Town and country -- Teamwork pays off / Knute Rockne -- The spiritual power of commerce / Calvin Coolidge -- Working women, unoccupied wives / Mary Ross -- The great god fashion -- Dangers of mother love / John B. Watson -- The gospel and the world / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Good temper in bad times / James Thurber. |
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 344 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-344). |
| ISBN: |
0807605719 9780807605714 0807605700 9780807605707 |