When The World Broke In Two: The Roaring Twenties And The Dawn Of America'S Culture Wars

This comprehensive history of America in the 1920s presents the decade's most compelling controversies as precursors to today's culture wars. * Offers a compelling historical overview of American culture in a popular decade * Insightfully argues for moving the starting point of contemporary cultural conflicts back to the 1920s * Provides relevant political information on red states and blue states, immigration reform, the war on drugs and mass incarceration, the politics of women's bodies, and the Religious Right * Includes an epilogue that makes clear connections between the culture wars of the 1920s and issues we continue to debate today

• | Author: Erica Ryan
• | Publisher: Praeger
• | Publication Date: Sep 14, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1440842248
• | ISBN-13: 9781440842245