The Birth of Modern America, 1914 - 1945

The Birth of Modern America, 1914 - 1945
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Provides a look at the origins of the culture wars of modern America and the political and economic transformation of the U.S. republic This book tells, in clear and lively prose, how Americans struggled with modernity in both its cultural and economic forms between the start of World War I and the end of World War II, focusing on the 1920s through 1930s. This edition includes revisions that expand the scope and features increased coverage of topics that will be of great interest to new readers as well as those familiar with the subject. The Birth of Modern America, 1914-1945 , Second Edition begins with a discussion of the promises and perils of the progressive era. The book goes on to look at the Great War and life on the home front and explores many paradoxes that marked the birth of Modern America. Topics covered include: the pervasive racism and nativism during and after WWI; the disillusionment with Woodrow Wilson's rhetorical idealism; the emergence of national media; the Great Depression; FDR and the New Deal; the attack on Pearl Harbor; Hollywood’s part during World War II; the United States' decision to drop «the bomb» on Japan; and more. Makes a strong contribution to understanding American society in the interwar years (1920s and 1930s) Disputes that American entry into WWII brought the New Deal to an end and argues that wartime measures foreshadowed postwar American practice Features more coverage of politics in the 1920s and 1930s Includes an Afterword covering the G.I. bill, postwar prosperity, Americans' move to the suburbs, the challenges to peace in Europe and Asia, and the Cold War The Birth of Modern America, 1914-1945 is an excellent book for undergraduate courses on the 20th Century and advanced placement courses. It will benefit all students and scholars of the Progressive Era, the Depression, 1920s and 1930s America, and America between the Wars.

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John McClymer. The Birth of Modern America, 1914 - 1945

Table of Contents

Guide

Pages

The Birth of Modern America, 1914–1945. Paradox and Disillusionment

About the Author

Introduction Modernity and Its Discontents: A Frame for Understanding Twentieth-Century America

Notes

CHAPTER ONE The Second Ku Klux Klan

An American Fascism?

Nordic America Aggrieved

The War Years as a Turning Point in the National Debate over the Meaning of Americanism

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments: Writing Americanism into the Constitution

The Ironies of Normalcy

Klancraft and Klannishness

Notes

CHAPTER TWO The Declension of Evangelical Protestantism The Scopes Trial, Fundamentalism, and Pentecostalism

Introduction: The Evangelical Crisis

The Loss of Faith in a “Converted Nation” and the Rise of Premillennialism

The “Monkey Trial”

Sister Is Missing!

The “Fundamentals”

The “Acids of Modernity” and Evangelicalism: Some Ironies

Notes

CHAPTER THREE What Sadie Knew The Immigrant Working Girl and the Rise of a Demotic Culture

Notes

CHAPTER FOUR The “Seven Lively Arts” Revisited The Demotic Impulse in Popular Culture. Introduction: Beyond Modernism

Modernist and Demotic Art: Some Initial Differences

Modernist and Demotic Art: Some Further Differences

Modernist and Demotic Efforts to Create a Visual Vocabulary for the Times

“Modern Dance” and Popular Dancing

A Demotic Sense of “Class”

The Comic Impulse in Demotic Art

Of Show Boat and Saints: A Conclusion

Notes

CHAPTER FIVE Passing from Light into Dark

Minstrels Are We

1924 in the Public Life of Worcester, Massachusetts, and in the Rest of the United States

The Norton Company Minstrel Show, Continued

A Jewish American View of Acculturation: The Jazz Singer

“Passing from Dark into Light”: The Career of Warner Oland

Passing as a Cultural Trope

Ethnic Cultures and Mass Media

Notes

CHAPTER SIX Revues and Other Vanities The Commodification of Fantasy in the 1920s

The Keystone Kops Play the Earl Carroll Theatre

The Revue as a Sign of the Times

A Complementary Fantasy

Titillation and the Censor

Bathing Beauties, Bathing Costumes, and Beach Censors

A Real “American Venus”: Louise Brooks, Dancer, Chorus Girl, Flapper, Movie Star

Censoring “the semi‐bacchante of Main Street”

Marketing Fantasy I: Hollywood

Marketing Fantasy II: Madison Avenue

Notes

CHAPTER SEVEN The Great Depression and the New Deal

Putting a Human Face on the Depression

Depression Era Advertisements

Notes

CHAPTER EIGHT World War II

United States Seeks to Stay Out of the “European War”

United States Reverses in the Pacific and the “Relocation” of Japanese and Japanese Americans

1943: A Long, Hot Summer

The Arsenal of Democracy

The Tide Turns

Ending the War

Atomic War

Notes

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Second Edition

JOHN McCLYMER

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And spend the rest of my life in bed

It is worth emphasizing that George M. Cohan was an Irish Catholic and that Irving Berlin (born Israel Baline) was a Russian Jew. The war intensified anti‐Catholic, anti‐Semitic, anti‐black, and anti‐immigrant hatreds. But Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and blacks continued to help shape the popular culture. Lt. James Reese Europe and his Harlem Hellfighters Orchestra, for example, helped launch the popularity of jazz with their recording of “Memphis Blues.”

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