Historical Dictionary of the 1920s

This is yet another fine historical dictionary from Greenwood. . . . This carefully edited work should prove an asset for all reference collections and as a useful handbook for students of twentieth-century American history. Reference Books BulletinThe Dictionary presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman Babe Ruth Warren Gamaliel Harding and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 the Revenue Acts of 1921 1924 and 1926 and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culture--baseball motion pictures radio jazz; foreign policy--the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922 the Nine Power Treaty the League of Nations; politics; social history--women''s rights the Harlem Renaissance immigration; and culture--the Lost Generation expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s.