Volume introduction: did the twenties roar? -- Overview -- Characterizing an era: haves and have-nots in the twenties -- Measured progress: the 1920s census -- Who lived where? American regions and population shifts -- Bibliography -- Modernity and mass production -- Overview -- Timeline -- Changes in industrial production -- Tough times for farmers -- African American workers' gains and losses -- Women in the workplace -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Mass consumption and leisure -- Overview -- Timeline -- The new consumer culture -- Automobility -- Tourism: the nation learns to vacation -- Vamps and sheiks: Americans at the movies -- Other amusements -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Urbanization, politics, and suffrage -- Overview -- Timeline -- Urbanization -- Urban issues -- Politics -- Women's suffrage -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- All that jazz: radio, magazines, and mass communication -- Overview -- Timeline -- Who owned the airwaves? Radio broadcasting in the twenties -- Popular music and dance -- Popular reading -- News and news reels -- Advertising everything -- The rise of public relations -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- American or un-American? -- Overview -- Timeline -- Immigration -- Assimilation in Los Angeles -- Eugenics -- America under a microscope -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Modernity and social movements -- Overview -- Timeline -- Dry: living with prohibition -- The second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s -- Religions new and old -- These modern women: the emergence of feminism -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- The end of the twenties -- Chapter overview -- Timeline -- Twenties economics: the distribution of wealth -- Boosterism and busts: the Florida land boom -- Fighting back: organized labor at the end of the 1920s -- Playing the market: the effects of the great crash -- Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.