Progressive Century: The American Nation in Its Second Hundred YearsD. C. Heath, 1975 - 558 pages |
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... appeared with opulent profusion in movies such as Brown of Harvard , Gimme , A Slave of Fashion , The Miracle of Money , and Money , Money , Money . Af- fluence , or the appearance of it , seemed highly desirable in the twenties ; many ...
... appeared with opulent profusion in movies such as Brown of Harvard , Gimme , A Slave of Fashion , The Miracle of Money , and Money , Money , Money . Af- fluence , or the appearance of it , seemed highly desirable in the twenties ; many ...
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... appeared ridiculous . The prohibitionists ' ilk included members of the Ku Klux Klan , religious fundamentalists , and anyone else who traded in what right - thinking people of the prewar period had accepted as eternal verities . The ...
... appeared ridiculous . The prohibitionists ' ilk included members of the Ku Klux Klan , religious fundamentalists , and anyone else who traded in what right - thinking people of the prewar period had accepted as eternal verities . The ...
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... appeared either bored or dif- fident . Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1952 , he was active in politics during a period when McCarthyism and the civil rights movement offered abundant ...
... appeared either bored or dif- fident . Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1946 and to the Senate in 1952 , he was active in politics during a period when McCarthyism and the civil rights movement offered abundant ...
Contents
Times and Tensions of a Developing Industrial Society | 3 |
MAPS | 21 |
American Society at the End of an Era | 34 |
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