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The Dictionary presents more than 700 short essays on people--George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Warren Gamaliel Harding, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; legislation--Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, the Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924, and 1926, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1932; popular culture--baseball, motion pictures, radio, jazz; foreign policy--the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922, the Nine Power Treaty, the League of Nations; politics; social history--women's rights, the Harlem Renaissance, immigration; and culture--the Lost Generation, expatriatism. A detailed chronology and selected bibliography with twenty-three subcategores complete this history of the 1920s.Olson, James S. is the author of 'Historical Dictionary of the 1920s: From World War I to the New Deal, 1919-1933 - James Stuart Olson - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780313256837 and ISBN 0313256837.
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