1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar, by Eric Burns

1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar, by Eric Burns

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One of the most dynamic eras in American history, the 1920s began with a watershed year that would set the tone for the century to follow.

The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our collective fascination with this era continues. But how did this surge of innovation and cultural milestones emerge out of the ashes of World War I?

Acclaimed author Eric Burns investigates the year 1920, which was not only a crucial 12-month period of its own but one that foretold the future. The year 1920 foreshadowed the rest of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, whether it was Sacco and Vanzetti or the stock market crash that brought this era to a close.

Burns sets the record straight about this most misunderstood and iconic of periods. Despite being the first full year of armistice, 1920 was not a peaceful period - it contained the greatest act of terrorism in American history to that time. And while 1920 is thought of as the beginning of a prosperous era, for most people life had never been more unaffordable. Meanwhile, African Americans were putting their stamp on culture. And though people today imagine the frivolous image of the flapper dancing the night away, the truth was that a new kind of power had been bestowed on women, and it had nothing to do with the dance floor.

From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, the rise of expatriate literature, and the original Ponzi scheme, 1920 was truly a year like no other.

1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar, by Eric Burns

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37676 in Audible
• Published on: 2015-06-25
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Running time: 760 minutes

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Good social history of 1920 America... By Jill Meyer The year 1920 was a lot more than the beginning of a decade, the "Roaring 20's". It was a dividing point between the end of the Great War and what seemed like a new generation of artists, musicians, political and societal radicals. It was also the year that one physically feeble president - Woodrow Wilson - left office and was replaced by another man - Warren Harding, who was intellectually and morally feeble. But all sorts of people and events came together to make the year 1920 a surprisingly interesting one.American author Eric Burns examines the year 1920 in his new social history, "1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar". Though mainly looking at the year in the United States, he devotes a bit of time to other countries, too. He starts his book by recounting a shocking event on September 16, 1920 when a horse and cart, filled with explosives, was seen sitting on Wall Street in NYC, in front of the JP Morgan bank. At about noon, the cart exploded, and 38 people (and the horse) were blown to kingdom come. Scores more were injured. Who planted the bomb? Burns takes that terrorist attack - certainly a continuation of several bombings in 1919, if not by the same groups - and unfolds the story of the past few years and moves into the next few. But 1920 was the "fulcrum" year.Women got the vote in 1920 with the passing of the 19th Amendment, while alcoholic drinking was legally prohibited the same year. The 18th Amendment - or the Volstead Act - may have "legally" stopped the production (and governmental taxation) of liquor, but it sure didn't stop the illegal consumption of the "hooch" and other homemade alcoholic products. Thousands died consuming the stuff in the 13 years of Prohibition. In the end, of course, the lack of legal revenue from taxation and the realisation that prohibiting liquor was in no way going to stop the demand of it.These events and people are just a few Eric Burns writes about in his lively book. It's a great book for readers who want to put the pieces of the times together.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. 1920 is a roaring read, a thorough and thoughtful appraisal of a single year in our past and all its implications for our future By Bookreporter In 1920, “Americans were hopeful that the worst was behind them.” As news correspondent and author Eric Burns (THE SPIRITS OF AMERICA, THE SMOKE OF THE GODS) proves, this hope would be tempered by seismic cultural changes, many of which were launched in the first year of the only decade in our history to have its own nickname.Three major factors that rocked the nation were the final end to the “war to end all wars” (though it didn’t) and two Constitutional amendments --- one allowing women to vote and the other preventing all Americans from consuming alcohol. The former endured and arguably changed the course of US politics; the latter was possibly the most ignored law in our history. But Burns points out that, in general, though Prohibition is often portrayed in a sardonic light, it very likely saved many lives (“fewer cases of cirrhosis of the liver”) and helped large numbers of American to lead more productive lives (“college administrators found their students to be more sober”).The country was in the grip of smaller, but no less portentous, issues, notably the first major act of foreign terrorism on American soil: the bombing on Wall Street. Burns follows the investigation of this outrageous action through the year, and though the specific perpetrators were never identified, signs pointed to Italian anarchists, certainly of an anti-capitalist and possibly communist strain. There were even suspicions that the Ku Klux Klan might have been involved, because it did have an active policy of creating terror, and was known as anti-immigrant and anti-government.An obscure conman who went by the name of Ponzi was inventing a new kind of crime that would bear his name. African American men were finding that fighting for the country on foreign soil gained them nothing back home, and farm boys were learning that factory work was at least as hard as ploughing and money didn't grow on the few trees in America's increasingly crowded cities. By 1920, President Woodrow Wilson was in seclusion, and in a very real sense, the country was being run by his wife, Ellen; this at a time when the issue of women’s rights was generating its own sparks.The very controversial Margaret Sanger (she advocated, among other causes, the policy of eugenics) was exhorting women to take control of their destinies; she spoke openly about contraception --- and the flappers got the message. Flappers were also smoking cigarettes (lots of them), a flagrantly antisocial and sexually charged behavior that, along with flesh-colored stockings, short skirts and a provocative way of moving on the dance floor, made these young restless women a symbol of the decade.1920 also saw the ascension of some of the century’s greatest artists, the names evoking the passions and growing pains of the decade: Louis Armstrong, Eugene O’Neill, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (“embodiments of the wild side of the era”), Bessie Smith, D H Lawrence and Paul Robeson. Sinclair Lewis dared to poke holes in the myth of the American small town with his hyperbolic MAIN STREET, and the Harlem Renaissance brought out the best of African American music and word craft. Jazz, free verse and the "lost generation" were born. The “talking box” brought it all home to Americans, along with the news, making trends impossible to ignore and easy to follow.1920 is a roaring read, a thorough and thoughtful appraisal of a single year in our past and all its implications for our future.Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Roaring Twenties Begin By historybuff It is very difficult to write a history by concentrating on one year. This book illustrates the problem. The author has to relates events in the years before 1920 and events after 1920. However, the author is a very good story teller so that the narrative is very readable. The book would be more meaningful if the author had also talked about the downturn in the economy and the demobilization of the military. Still, anyone interested in the 1920's will find this book to be a good introduction.

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