Covering the entire sweep of American history, this unique new series draws its material entirely from primary sources. Skillful annotation and interpretive introductions add to the vitality of these works and contribute to the cohesive character of the series, which includes more than forty volumes. In The Culture of the Twenties Loren Baritz (series editor), an historian of American ideas, has provided the anthology, and unique perspective of, the Twenties in America on the premises that the Twenties actually provided a 'relevant legacy' and was not just a society of the Jazz Age, Flappers, and the Charleston. He charts the development of this heritage in the cultural revolt of the times, the rebellion of the youth, and the social criticism of the intellectuals.
About the Author
Loren Baritz has written several works including The Servants of Power: A History of the Use of Social Science in American Industry, City on a Hill: A History of Ideas and Myths in America, and Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. Baritz also edited Sources of the American Mind, John Taylor’s An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, The Culture of the Twenties, and The American Left: Radical Political Thought in the Twentieth Century. He received his B.A. from Roosevelt University, and his Ph.D from University of Wisconsin.
