A History of US (A ^AHistory of US) - Softcover

Hakim, Joy

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9780195127683: A History of US (A ^AHistory of US)

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ISBN 10: 0195127684 ISBN 13: 9780195127683

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

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Model T's, woodframe airplanes, radios, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, jazz, flappers, Babe Ruth, the Depression, and the two World Wars--all in a thirty-year span.

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From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games aplenty. But alongside this post-WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever-present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip-flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity.

About the Author:

Joy Hakim is a former teacher, newspaper writer, and editor. She developed A History of US in the classroom, using children as her editors. She didn't expect to get letters from children about the books, but she has a file bulging with their letters-which she calls "an added bonus!"

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