Only Yesterday

<p><strong>A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism. -- <em>Chicago Daily Tribune</em></strong></p><p><strong>From Frederick Lewis Allen former editor-in-chief of <em>Harper's</em> magazine comes a classic history of 1920s America from the end of World War I to the stock market crash and the beginning of The Great Depression. Originally published in 1931 <em>Only Yesterday</em> has an exuberance and proximity to its subject--the Roaring Twenties in all its scandal and glory--that uniquely captures the feel of the era.</strong></p><p><em>Only Yesterday </em>deals with that delightful decade from the Armistice in November 1918 to the panic and depression of 1929-30. Here is the story of Woodrow Wilson's defeat the Harding scandals the Coolidge prosperity the revolution in manners and morals the bull market and its smash-up. Allen's lively narrative brings back an endless variety of half-forgotten events fashions crazes and absurdities. Deftly written with a humorous touch <em>Only Yesterday</em> traces beneath the excitements of day-to-day life in the 20s those currents in national life and thought which are the essence of true history.</p>