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Product Details Binding MP3 CD Dewey Decimal Number 901 EAN 9780786188642 Format MP3 Audio ISBN 0786188642 Manufacturer Blackstone Audiobooks Number Of Items 1 Publication Date 2003-09 Publisher Blackstone Audiobooks Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of organized crime. Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Publishers Weekly calls it 'an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled, and tempestuous decade,' and Jonathan Yardley's Washington Post review proclaimed this the new classic history of the 1920s, replacing Frederick Lewis Allen's celebrated account. Using the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a backdrop, Miller describes the world of Calvin Coolidge, H. L. Mencken, Woodrow Wilson, and the Red Scare in extraordinarily accessible (and frequently witty) writing, New World Coming is destined to become the book we all turn to, to recall one of the most beloved eras in American history. Miller (Theodore Roosevelt: A Life; FDR: An Intimate History; etc.) quite eloquently illuminates the United States as it existed under presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, using the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with all its peaks and valleys during the 1920s, as the backbone of his narrative. But Miller's book is much more complex than a mere discussion of Fitzgerald or such related phenomena as the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age. In addition to events in the arts and sciences, Miller details bitter labor struggles, the rise of the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan and Prohibition. Woven into this text are vivid portrayals of such personalities as H.L. Mencken (who coined the famous phrase, 'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people') and the young, relatively unknown Franklin Roosevelt, dealing with the onset of polio. Miller's provocative prose dovetails such notables as Al Capone, evangelist Billy Sunday, birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger and aviator Charles Lindbergh. In addition to personalities, Miller is also keen to depict key trends and events, and, where appropriate, he notes them as distant mirrors of our own age. This is particularly Miller's ambition when it comes to the rampant stock market speculation of the 1920s and such corporate scandals as the Teapot Dome affair. In sum, this volume comprises an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled and tempestuous decade called 'the roaring '20s.' Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Miller characterizes the 1920s as a decade full of drinking, dancing, hedonism, and crime. Miller first concentrates on the writer who captured the decade's insouciance and ennui in The Great Gatsby, periodically revisiting F. Scott Fitzgerald's self-destructive slide, then returning to recount the period's social and economic trends. Blacks moved north, women began voting, factories hummed, farms stagnated, stocks inflated, and speakeasies proliferated. Presiding over the turbulence, the five presidents of the period (Wilson through FDR) receive Miller's closest narrative attention, their reputations illustrated with telling anecdotes, such as Harding's signing a bill on a golf course. Considering this work's density of data and personalities from Klansmen to jazzmen to evangelists, Miller's structuring is notably skillful. A suave, entertaining survey. Gilbert Taylor Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved 'Miller's work has the power to make the reader think as few history books do...A must read.' -- Curled Up with a Good Book 2/28/05 The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women's right to vote, racial injustice, and the birth of organized crime. Nathan Miller has penned the ultimate introduction to the era. Publishers Weekly calls it 'an excellent chronicle of that turbulent, troubled, and tempestuous decade,' and Jonathan Yardley's Washington Post review proclaimed this the new classic history of the 1920s, replacing Frederick Lewis Allen's celebrated account. Using the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a backdrop, Miller describes the world of Calvin Coolidge, H. L. Mencken, Woodrow Wilson, and the Red Scare in extraordinarily accessible (and frequently witty) writing, New World Coming is destined to become the book we all turn to, to recall one of the most beloved eras in American history. Nathan Miller is an award-winning journalist and the author of twelve works of history and biography, including Broadside: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815, FDR: An Intimate History, and War at Sea. He lives in Washington, D.C. Miller succeeds in showing how the '20s laid the groundwork for the America later to come. This long work offers a lively narrative and the mellifluous voice of Lloyd James. Capturing the text with excellent pace and occasional vocal characterizations, James's reading is almost flawless. (There are a few mis-pronunciations.) Miller's text is interesting and broad-ranging, although his interpretations of the times are largely conventional. Politics gets the bulk of the treatment, but popular culture, economic history, and social life are also extensively examined. M.L.C. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Customers who bought this item also bought Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics) Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (Galaxy Books) The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s Customer Reviews for: New World Coming: Library Edition Rating - Good, not great, 3 1/2 stars This book is written by a journalist, and as you read it, that fact becomes more evident. And as a former journalist, I believe that's both good and bad. Miller does a very nice job of telling the story of the 1920s. His research is extensive. He effectively sets the scene by describing the mid- to late-1910s, and his epilogue about the 1932 election is a nice way to end the book. I also loved the short biographical sketches that he wrote about all the key figures, from the politicians and writers to the crime ... Read More Rating - biased and sloppy Miller's book is so liberally biased it is untrustworthy. He has a simplistic liberals good, conservatives bad philosophy which he allows to slant his history. For instance, his section on the Scopes trial, contains many of the usual myths perpetrated about the trial, but Miller even adds an apocryphal ending. (Since he doesn't cite his sources well, I can't tell where he got it. ) He writes, "Bryan slumped in the witness chair after an hour and a half of this, his face heavy with sweat, muttering over and over again "Slurring ... Read More Rating - New World Coming I just finished this book and it is fast-paced, enjoyable and generally informative. But the authors obvious liberal political bias makes one question his objectivity and accuracy. For example, his comparison of Florence Harding to Hillary Clinton is laughable. Love and desire may have played a role in her decision to "stand by her man' but who can deny that greed and ambition played a larger role. If one is able ignore the authors snide political interjections, the book is a fun read. Rating - Fantastic introduction to the 1920's It's an ambitious project to render a history of America in the twenties in only four hundred pages, but Nathan Miller performs the task admirably. The rise of the automobile, big business, jazz, prohibition, Coolidge prosperity, Lindbergh...any of these subjects is worthy of its own book, but Miller touches on them with a deft hand, bringing them to life with wit and enough factual content to give the reader a basic understanding. The amount of important stories and memorable moments in that decade is impressive and Miller wonderfully ... 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