| Portion of title |
Life and culture in the West, 1918-1938 |
| Contents |
Postwar: 1918 : Shell shock -- 1919 : A poet's coup -- 1920 : Moonshine nation -- 1921 : The end of hope -- 1922 : Renaissance in Harlem -- 1923 : Beyond the Milky Way -- 1924 : Men behaving badly -- 1925 : Monkey business -- 1926 : Metropolis -- 1927 : A palace in flames -- 1928 : Boop-boop-a-doop! -- Prewar: 1929 : The magnetic city -- 1930 : Lili and the Blue Angel -- 1931 : The anatomy of love in Italy -- 1932 : Holodomor -- 1933 : Pogrom of the intellect -- 1934 : Thank you, Jeeves -- 1935 : Route 66 -- 1936 : Beautiful bodies -- 1937 : War within a war -- 1938 : Epilogue: Abide by me. |
| Abstract |
The award-winning author of The Vertigo Years argues that in the aftermath of World War I, Western culture redirected energies into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery in ways that triggered world-changing innovations. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-442) and index. |
| LCCN | 2015413288 |
| ISBN | 9780465022496 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0465022499 (hardback) |
