Book Review

Blog posts that review books about the 1920s.

Blog Post Using Themes from The Modern Temper Chapters 1-3: Irish Civil War

The book, The Modern Temper talks about a lot of problems and events that happened in the 1920s. Its main focus is on America, but this book can also connect…

February 26, 2024
Book Review: County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1923

Overview Marie Coleman is a lecturer in history and a professor of twentieth century Irish history at Queen’s University Belfast. She has written multiple books and journal articles related to…

March 14, 2023
Book Review: Democracy Delayed

Charles W. Eagles’ novel “Democracy Delayed” shows a distinct urban-rural tension within the United States by examining how states are represented and in particular the 1920s centennial election. Eagles starts…

March 8, 2023
Book Review: Rethinking the 1920s: Historians and Changing Perspectives by David J. Goldberg

David J. Goldberg A professor of history at the Cleveland State University, David J. Goldberg has spent much of his career in the field of history publishing books on the…

April 13, 2021
Book Review: White Collar: The American Middle Class by C. Wright Mills

Charles Wright Mills Born in the later half of the 1910s, Charles Wright Mills was an esteemed American sociologist who was heavily influenced by the theories and ideals of German…

March 17, 2021
Book Review: The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s by Daniel Gorman

Daniel Gorman’s The Emergence of International Society in the 1920s tells the story of how World War I created an international community that connected the globe. In the aftermath of…

March 17, 2021
Book Review: Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

The 1920s is a decade in which an enormous amount of historians have contributed to the ongoing discussions surrounding the time period. While some praise the decade as a time…

March 16, 2021
Book Review: The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s

Summary The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s by Lynn Dumenil was written in 1995, and it is an interpretation of the dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade.…

March 16, 2021
Book Review: Review of “Recasting Bourgeois Europe”

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I was written by historian Charles S. Maier and was first published in 1975. This…

March 16, 2021