Only Yesterday Author:Frederick Lewis Allen Urbane, informative, witty and penetrating, ONLY YESTERDAY is the documented history of American manners, morals and politics in the nineteen-twenties, the definitive biography of a fabulous era, termed by the London Spectator "The most important book written about America." — A Major addition to American letters, when ONLY YESTERDAY first appear... more »ed, the Saturday Review said: "Liveliness and vigor...an unfailing sense of the significant and revealing... Mr. Allen's reasearch is equalled by his dexterity and his dexterity is given weight by an underlying seriousness." This unique book offers a fascinating picture of a period which is remote enough to be part of living memory.« less