Edmund O Stillman: 2 books

The event that defined the 1930s in the United States came before it started. On October 29, "Black Tuesday," stock-market investors lost more than 30 billion in the Great Crash. The ten-year Great Depression that followed was not the product of a single day or week. Nonetheless, it came as a shock to...

No decade in American history has roared as loudly as the 1920s. For two centuries, the United States had lived in happy isolation from international issues. Then it was drawn into World War I. Although America was still fundamentally a provincial society, by the end of the war and the opening of the...