Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917-30 (History of American Thought & Culture S.)

by Roderick Nash

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How roaring were the Roaring Twenties? How lost was the Lost Generation? In this major reinterpretation of one of the most colorful decades in American history, Roderick Nash finds the image of the period to be less than life-size. His book is not only a summary of the high points of American thought from the Great War to the Great Depression but a lively foray into popular culture. His interest in Zane Grey as well as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford as well as John Dewey, offers fresh insights into a decade filled with paradoxes. Seeking to find "what captured the enthusiasm of ordinary people," Mr. Nash has written an original and persuasive analysis of a generation that continues to command our attention.
  • ISBN10 0528665596
  • ISBN13 9780528665592
  • Publish Date February 1971
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 June 1991
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Rand McNally & Co ,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 178
  • Language English