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Title: Only Yesterday : An Informal History of the 1920's by Frederick Lewis Allen ISBN: 0471189529 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62
Rating: 5
Summary: A throughly excellent historical reference
Comment: This is exactly the type of history book I like to read. The subject matter is brought to life in a way simply not found in other authors. It reminded me quite a bit of Howard's Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" because I read that first and I wonder if Professor Zinn took a hint from Mr. Allen's style because they are very similar.
I will remember events, people and places in this book long after I am done reading it (for a college class) simply because of the way the author seems to be talking directly to you.
It is as if you are just sitting down for dinner, or a chat, and he's laying out the 1920's to you because you asked.
I am throughly impressed with this book and I am glad my Professor exposed me to it. I recommend it to anyone who has ever wondered what the "Roaring 20's" were all about.
Rating: 5
Summary: The more things change...
Comment: Allen does not limit himself to the "great man" school of history, but gives a wide-ranging and colorful view of a decade disquietingly like the 90s/00s - a careening stock market, a failing war on drugs, and oil company execs in to clean up the White House. This book would get five stars for the Prohibition poem alone: "...it doesn't prohibit worth a dime/Nevertheless, we're for it!" One of the most interesting parts was what Allen doesn't - and couldn't - write about. Only Yesterday was written in 1931, before the full effects of Versailles had been felt. Viewed in that light, Allen's portrait of Wilson, while romanticized, astutely outlines why Wilson's ideas for the peace treaty were wise, and why they were so unlikely to ever be realized. From hemlines to geopolitics, Allen pulls it all together in a fascinating book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Only Today?
Comment: The summer of 2002 is a very interesting time to be thinking about the 1920s, and this book is the perfect way to do that. One of Allen's major themes is the Big Bull Market of that decade -- how it gradually, little by little, seduced many economic thinkers into believing that the business cycle had been permanently changed for the better, and how stocks turned into a nationwide spectator sport. Sound familiar? As with our more recent bull market, the end wasn't pretty. But one of the things the book suggests is that we haven't seen anywhere near the calamity that followed the crash of 1929. (Allen finished the book in 1931.) I don't know that the book offers much guidance about what will happen next for us in 2002, but it does teach a powerful lesson about the ways that history repeats. Allen covers other ground, too, like the Teapot Dome scandal and the rise of Al Capone, as well as some of the more frivolous "hot" stories of the time. Among the other déjà vu themes he hits is how easily distracted we are by trivial stories when the economy is good. Nicely written, still holds up remarkably well.
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Title: Since Yesterday : The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939 by Frederick L. Allen ISBN: 0060913223 Publisher: Perennial Press Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Strategy in Poker, Business & War by John McDonald ISBN: 039331457X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Money Game by Adam Smith ISBN: 0394721039 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: September, 1976 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Andrew Tobias ISBN: 051788433X Publisher: Crown Publishing Group Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Perils of Prosperity 1914-1932 (Chicago History of American Civilization) by William E. Leuchtenburg, Daniel J. Boorstin ISBN: 0226473716 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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