The 20's Author:Frederick J Hoffman The author has drawn a sharp portrait of this turbulent decade in American life and letters, often stereotyped as the age of wonderful nonsense and bathtub gin but also recognized as a period of brilliant experiment and enduring achievement in literature. He moves swiftly from examination of the issues of the day--vast changes in the moral code,... more » postwar cynicism, the economic boom--to analysis of appropriate literary texts. The result is a first-rate discussion of an exciting era and of the writers who found new forms in which to re-create their times.« less