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Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created and American Spectacle
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Philip T. Rosen, The Modern Stentors: Radio Broadcasting and the Federal Government,
1920--1933 (1980). Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middlebrow Culture (1992).
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of American Broadcasting, Smithsonian Institution Press (1994). Susan Strasser,
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A. Weisberger, The Dream Maker (1979). Women, Family, and Youth. W. Andrew Achenbaum, Shades of Gray:
Old Age, American Values, and Federal Policies Since 1920 (1983). Beth L. Bailey,
From Back Porch to Front Seat (1988). Lois Banner, American Beauty (1983). Susan
Porter Benson, Counter Cultures (1986). William H. Chafe, The American Woman:
Her Changing Social and Political Roles (1972). Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor:
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America (1992). Howard P.
Chudacoff, How Old Are You? Age in American Culture (1989). Nancy Cott, The
Grounding of American Feminism (1987). Ruth Schwarz Cowan, More Work for Mother
(1983). John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Friedman, Intimate Matters: A History of
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Lies: Nationalism and the Arts in Twentieth Century America (1980). Houston
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J. Hoffman, The Twenties (1949). Nathan I. Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (1971).
Gloria T. Hull, Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
(1987). David L. Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981). John E. Moser, Twisting
the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars (1999). Roderick
Nash, The Nervous Generation: American Thought, 1917--1930 (1969). John Stewart,
The Burden of Time (1965). Kenneth M. Wheeler and Virginia L. Lussier, eds.,
Women, the Arts, and the 1920s in Paris and New York (1982). Edmund Wilson,
The Twenties (1975). Cultural Conflicts. Charles C. Alexander, The Ku Klux Klan in
the Southwest (1965). Paul Avrich, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background
(1991). Herbert Asbury, The Great Illusion (1950). Kathleen M. Blee, Women of
the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (1991). David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism
(1965). Norman Clark, Deliver Us from Evil (1976). Elton C. Fax, Garvey (1972).
Glenn Feldman, Politics, Society and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 (1999).
Norman Furniss, The Fundamentalist Controversy (1954). Ray Ginger, Six Days
or Forever? (1958). Joseph Gusfeld, Symbolic Crusade (1963). Andrew Gyory, Closing
the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1998). John Higham,
Strangers in the Land (1963). Izumi Hirobe, Japanese Pride, American Prejudice:
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Huggins, Harlem Renaissance (1971). Kenneth Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the
City (1965). K. Austin Kerr, Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the
Anti-Saloon League (1985). Don Kirschner, City and Country: Rural Responses
to Urbanization in the 1920s (1970). Lawrence Levine, Defender of the Faith,
William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915--1925 (1965). Nancy MacLean, Behind
the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994). George M.
Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture (1980). William G. McLoughlin,
Modern Revivalism (1959). Leonard Moore, Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan
in Indiana, 1921-1928 (1991). Rick Ostrander, The Life of Prayer in a World
of Science: Protestants, Prayer, and American Culture 1870-1930 (2000). George
J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano
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Solomon, The Cry was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 (1998).
Richard K. Tucker, The Dragon and the Cross: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux
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Movement (1971). Politics and Government. Kristi Andersen, The Creation of a Democratic
Majority, 1928--1936 (1979). LeRoy Ashby, Spearless Leader (1972). Christine
Bolt, American Indian Policy and American Reform (1987). David Burner, The Politics
of Provincialism (1967). David Burner, Herbert Hoover (1979). E. Paula Elder,
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(1956). James N. Giglio, H. M. Daugherty and the Politics of Expediency (1978).
James Gilbert, Designing the Industrial State (1972). Dewey W. Grantham, The
South in Modern America: A Region at Odds (1994). Oscar Handlin, Al Smith and
His America (1958). William Harbaugh, Lawyer's Lawyer (1973). Ellis Hawley,
Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice
(1974). Robert Herzstein, Henry R. Luce: A Political Portrait of the Man Who
Created the American Century (1994). Robert F. Himmelberg, The Origins of the
National Recovery Administration: Business, Government, and the Trade Association
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(1994). Donald R. McCoy, Calvin Coolidge (1967). Robert K. Murray, The Politics
of Normalcy (1973); The Harding Era (1969). Burl Noggle, Teapot Dome (1962).
Elisabeth Israels Perry, Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise
of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith (1987). Francis Russell, The Shadow of
Blooming Grove (1968). Andrew Sinclair, The Available Man (1965). David P. Thelen,
Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit (1978). George B. Tindall, The
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