Ebook: Fracture: life & culture in the West, 1918-1938

The award-winning author of The Vertigo Years argues that in the aftermath of World War I, Western culture redirected energies into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery in ways that triggered world-changing innovations.;Introduction : 1,567 days -- Part I. Postwar : 1918: Shell shock -- 1919: A poet's coup -- 1920: Moonshine nation -- 1921: The end of hope -- 1922: Renaissance in Harlem -- 1923: Beyond the Milky Way -- 1924: Men behaving badly -- 1925: Monkey business -- 1926: Metropolis -- 1927: A palace in flames -- 1928: Boop-boop-a-doop! -- Part II. Prewar : 1929: The magnetic city -- 1930: Lili and the Blue Angel -- 1931: The anatomy of love in Italy -- 1932: Holodomor -- 1933: Pogrom of the intellect -- 1934: Thank you, Jeeves -- 1935: Route 66 -- 1936: Beautiful bodies -- 1937: War within a war -- 1938: Epilogue : Abide by me.