The Birth of Modern America, 1914 - 1945. John McClymer
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1 Cover
6 CHAPTER ONE: The Second Ku Klux Klan An American Fascism? Nordic America Aggrieved The War Years as a Turning Point in the National Debate over the Meaning of Americanism The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments: Writing Americanism into the Constitution The Ironies of Normalcy Klancraft and Klannishness
7 CHAPTER TWO: The Declension of Evangelical Protestantism Introduction: The Evangelical Crisis The Loss of Faith in a “Converted Nation” and the Rise of Premillennialism The “Monkey Trial” Sister Is Missing! The “Fundamentals” The “Acids of Modernity” and Evangelicalism: Some Ironies
8 CHAPTER THREE: What Sadie Knew
9 CHAPTER FOUR: The “Seven Lively Arts” Revisited Introduction: Beyond Modernism Modernist and Demotic Art: Some Initial Differences Modernist and Demotic Art: Some Further Differences Modernist and Demotic Efforts to Create a Visual Vocabulary for the Times “Modern Dance” and Popular Dancing A Demotic Sense of “Class” The Comic Impulse in Demotic Art Of Show Boat and Saints: A Conclusion
10 CHAPTER FIVE: Passing from Light into Dark Minstrels Are We 1924 in the Public Life of Worcester, Massachusetts, and in the Rest of the United States The Norton Company Minstrel Show, Continued A Jewish American View of Acculturation: The Jazz Singer “Passing from Dark into Light”: The Career of Warner Oland Passing as a Cultural Trope Ethnic Cultures and Mass Media
11 CHAPTER SIX: Revues and Other Vanities The Keystone Kops Play the Earl Carroll Theatre The Revue as a Sign of the Times A Complementary Fantasy Titillation and the Censor Bathing Beauties, Bathing Costumes, and Beach Censors A Real “American Venus”: Louise Brooks, Dancer, Chorus Girl, Flapper, Movie Star Censoring “the semi‐bacchante of Main Street” Marketing Fantasy I: Hollywood Marketing Fantasy II: Madison Avenue
12 CHAPTER SEVEN: The Great Depression and the New Deal Putting a Human Face on the Depression Depression Era Advertisements
13 CHAPTER EIGHT: World War II United States Seeks to Stay Out of the “European War” United States Reverses in the Pacific and the “Relocation” of Japanese and Japanese Americans 1943: A Long, Hot Summer The Arsenal of Democracy The Tide Turns Ending the War Atomic War
14 Index
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