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47. Old Values vs. New Values

The Red Scare, the Monkey Trial, the intolerance of the decade, and the books and films that argued with it.

47. Old Values vs. New Values

"In every living soul, a spirit cries for expression — perhaps this plaintive, wailing song of Jazz is, after all, the misunderstood utterance of a prayer." --…

47a. The Red Scare

The conviction of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sparked protests throughout the world. World War I was over, but the hysteria lingered. The E…

47b. The Monkey Trial

Legendary defense lawyer Clarence Darrow faces off against William Jennings Bryan in the Dayton, Tennessee trial of schoolteacher John Scopes. Bryan died in Da…

47c. Intolerance

As people from other nations began to pour into the United States, some Americans began to resent their presence and blame them for economic and social problem…

47d. Books and Movies

Charlie Chaplin, whose slapstick comedy made him a superstar of early films They were called the Lost Generation. America's most talented writers of the 1920s…

47e. Domestic and International Politics

"Silent Cal" Coolidge, a man of few words, poses with a fisherman for a Massachusettes magazine Despite all the verve of the American social scene in the 1920s…