Twenties Culture

Mass Culture in the 1920's

Read in Chapter 24: The New Era: normalcy, modulation, welfare capitalism, the American Plan, pink-collar jobs, Issei and Nisei, parity, farm tenancy, myth of the new professional woman, behaviorists, middle class companionate marriage, myth of the self-made man, debunkers, southern agrarians, nativism.

Politics
- Republican era, McNary-Haugen, isolationism, Al Smith
Consumerism
- Henry Ford, Bruce Barton, Alfred Sloan, Lost Generation, Sinclair Lewis, Samuel Insull
Media
- Radio, KDKA, NBC, Henry Luce, flapper, magazine revolution, Valentino, Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong
Secularism
- Harry Emerson Fosdick, Margaret Sanger, Alice Paul
Leisure
- Baseball, Coney Island, The Jazz Singer, dance halls, Movie Palace
Urbanism
- Al Capone, ACLU, The Harlem Renaissance
Corporatism
- Andrew Mellon, American Farm Bureau, Will Hays
Conflict
- KKK, prohibition, antisemitism, fundamentalism
- Henry vs. Edsel Ford and Ruth vs. Cobb and Darrow vs. Bryan

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