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Author Kyvig, David E.

Title Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression / David E. Kyvig.

Publication Info. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.91 SPIVEY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.91 KYVIG    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.91 KYVIG    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  973.91 KYV    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.91 KYV    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.91 K99    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.91 KY    Check Shelf
Description xv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-313) and index.
Contents The circumstances of American life in 1920 -- Automobiles and the construction of daily life -- Electricity and the conditions of daily life -- Radio and the connecting of daily lives -- Cinema and the extension of experience -- Carrying on day by day : life's basics -- Carrying on year by year : making a life -- Conflict, crime, and catastrophe : the disruptions of daily life -- Culture for the masses : the standardizing of daily life -- Crisis : the impact of the Great Depression -- Creating the New Deal : a larger role for government indaily life -- Continuity and change : American communities at the end of the 1930s.
Subject Nineteen twenties.
Nineteen thirties.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
ISBN 1566635845 alkaline paper
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