1927: High Tide Of The Twenties; Author: Leinwand, Gerald; Paperback

Author: Leinwand, Gerald
Paperback
352 pages
Published: December 2002
Four Walls Eight Windows
ISBN: 1568582455

A tumultuous stock market, a media obsessed with celebrity and scandal, a time new technologies were rocking society: the 1920s bear more than a little semblance to today, and 1927 is a snapshot of the period. Photographs and illustrations bring to life a year with astonishing parallels to the present. [An] encyclopedic study with all the verve and excitement of a finely tuned novel....An outstanding book. Library JournalA tumultuous stock market, a media obsessed with celebrity and scandal, a time in which new technologies were rocking society, when nothing could go wrong - the 1920s bear more than a little semblance to today. As this year in detail unfolds, it becomes a clear mirror of the present.