Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

Product Description
[Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.]

[Read by Grover Gardner]

Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931,
Only Yesterday traces the rise of post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against a colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror -- when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows.
Review
''A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.'' --
Chicago Daily Tribune

''A style that is verve itself . . . Besides telling the story of the bull market in fine perspective, Mr. Allen presents the first coherent account that we have seen of the oil scandals that will eventually make the Harding regime match that of President Grant's and the Crédit Mobilier story in the history books of the future.'' --
New York Times

''(Narrator) Grover Gardner's reading, with its slightly ironic tone, is effective as he describes the post World War I decade . . . The quality of the sound is excellent, and the reading is well paced and clear.'' --
Library Journal
About the Author
FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN (1890-1954) was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1912. He served on the editorial staffs of the
Atlantic Monthly and
Century magazines and was editor in chief of
Harper's magazine from 1941 until his death.