Introduction: From hope to despair
But hope dampened by the influenza pandemic
Prohibition, a further dampener on hedonistic desires?
Escaping reality
in the cinema
in the new music and dance crazes of the young and not so young
in the pages of the great American novel
Three Pen Portraits
Calvin Coolidge President 1923-29
Walt Disney
Herbert Hoover who assumes Presidency in 1929 in time for the Wall Street Crash
Women's Rights and Opportunities begin to change - if slowly
The Crash brings the Twenties to a close and thus The Thirties begin with Depression
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