Only Yesterday Author:Frederick Lewis Allen The period between the end of World War I and Black Friday of the Great Market Crash has been nicknamed The Roaring Twenties, The Jazz Age, The Era of Glorious Nonsense. It was also the era of champions--Bobby Jones, Tilden, Babe Ruth, Dempsey--of million-dollar gates, and the Teapot Dome oil scandals, of Prohibition, bootleggers, gang wars, sp... more »eakeasies and sex, and the first knee-length skirts.
Millions of words have been written about this remarkable time but it remained for Frederick Lewis Allen, long-time editor of The Atlantic Monthly, to write this cool, definitive and highly entertaining biography of a fascinating era -- ONLY YESTERDAY.« less