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Only Yesterday : An Informal History of the 1920's
Frederick Lewis Allen
Paperback - $21.95
"Only Yesterday "deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat, the Harding scandals, the Coolidge prosperity, the revolution in manners and ...
Sacco and Vanzetti : The Anarchist Background
Paul Avrich
Paperback - $57.95
The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Few writers, however, have consult ...
Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame : Love and Madness in the Roaring Twenties
Donald Bain
Paperback - $26.95
This book recounts a famous turf war raged during the Prohibition. Charlie Birger's outsized ambitions brought him from New York to Southern Illinois in search of fortune as a bootlegger. He soon found that his dream to be "even bigger than Al Capone ...
The Elegant Twenties : 24 Cards
George Barbier
Novelty - $11.95
Elegant, romantic, and witty illustrations depicting high fashion, love, the easy life, and much more. 24 cards.
Rising Tide : The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
John M. Barry
Paperback - $27.95
"(This) gripping account of the mammoth flooding of 1927 that devastated Mississippi and Louisiana and sent political shock waves to Washington . . . is a brilliant match of scholarship and investigative journalism".--Jason Berry, "Chicago Tribune".
Prohibition : Thirteen Years That Changed America
Edward Behr
Paperback - $24.95
When the Constitution declared on January 16, 1920, that Americans could no longer buy or sell alcoholic drink, it sparked the wildest, booziest years in our nation's history. Everyone saw in Prohibition an unparalleled license to get rich. Here is t ...
Capone : The Man and the Era
Laurence Bergreen
Paperback - $32.95
Al Capone reached a pinnacle of celebrity that modern-day upstarts like John Gotti can only dream about. Going behind the myths and movie portrayals, Bergreen introduces Capone as he really was--a cold-blooded killer who saw himself as a modern-day R ...
When All the Gods Trembled : Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals
Paul Keith Conkin
Hardcover - $41.95
When All the Gods Trembled narrates the drama of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, and describes the varied attempts by early 20th century Americans to accommodate Darwinism into their religious traditions. Conkin's sweeping narrative about this comple ...
