RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 127 Like the Progressive Era reforms in banking and meatpacking, and the industry and ...
128 ChaPter 3 not just their individual business. Though most Americans might not be familiar with the term “trade association,” ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 129 secretive deal-making, and let companies fix prices and production—if, as he saw i ...
130 ChaPter 3 Garvey’s goal of separatism from the United States was fueled by the changing culture of the time, which he saw as ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 131 fessionals with educations and others were white-collar workers. Claude McKay, who ...
132 ChaPter 3 wright, and columnist. Hughes’ poetry cut to the soul of American racism, but often more with lament than sarcasm ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 133 was composed of only light-skinned African-American women. Harlem indeed flourishe ...
134 ChaPter 3 showing off one’s wealth was at times even considered sinful [except for the ruling class, who were “captains of i ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 135 female, could buy canned or frozen foods and prepare meals more easily and go to t ...
136 ChaPter 3 more profitably, to sell goods. He and his wife thus began doing work for a large number of big companies, includi ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 137 went about discovering new markets—especially women and young kids. Smoking was co ...
138 ChaPter 3 racing cars, while at the same time Ford himself began to produce cheaper, and slower, cars for the American peopl ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 139 for every household in the U.S. The auto boom had significant consequenc- es for o ...
140 ChaPter 3 As noted above, radios and record players were mass produced, thereby creating a way for virtually every American ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 141 became the most popular show of the era. Americans began to rearrange their lives ...
142 ChaPter 3 double on her films because she was so widely-loved. Other Hollywood pro- ducers and investors jumped on the lurid ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 143 Harlow, Greta Garbo, and Gary Cooper, but it ended the careers of many oth- ers. A ...
144 ChaPter 3 series for money. A few years later, the Yankees added the great first baseman Lou Gehrig and began to dominate ba ...
The ‘20s: Culture, Consumption, and Crash 145 played there and he and quarterback Gus Dorais revolutionized the sport in 1913 wh ...
146 ChaPter 3 haps the most quoted phrase in sports history: “Outlined against a blue, gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode a ...
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