SUGGESTED READING ★ A-9WEBSITES
Red Scare: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/
The Bisbee Deportation of 1917: http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/
The U.S.A. and Latin America: http://www.casahistoria.net/uslatam.htm
CHAPTER 20
BOOKS
Boyle, Kevin. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz
Age (2004). A history of the Sweet case, placing it in the context of postwar
Detroit and the nation.
Cohen, Warren I. Empire without Tears: America’s Foreign Relations, 1921–1933
(1987). A careful examination of American foreign policy between the
presidencies of Wilson and Roosevelt.
Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: America in the Twenties (1995). A brief
survey of the main political and cultural trends of the decade.
Garraty, John A. The Great Depression (1986). Places the Depression in a global
context and compares various governments’ responses to it.
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2002). A
sweeping survey of how changing ideas of race have affected the concept
of American nationality, with a strong account of the debates of the 1920s.
Grandin, Greg. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
(2009). Tells the fascinating story of Ford’s effort to create a planned com-
munity in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest.
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925
(1955). A classic account of American hostility to immigrants, concluding
with the immigration restriction of 1924.
Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing
Debate over Science and Religion (1998). A history of the famous trial and the
enduring debate over evolution.
Lewis, David L. When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981). A lively account of the Har-
lem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Maclean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux
Klan (1994). A careful analysis of the membership and motivations of the
Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity,
1920–1940 (1985). Examines how advertisers responded to and helped to
shape changes in American life between the two world wars.