Politically, the United States grew into its own as a global superpower during these years, even as domestic developments altered the everyday lives of its citizens.
Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor of Harper’s magazine, recounts these years-spanning World War I, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War-in vivid detail, from the fashions and customs of the times to major events that changed the course of history. The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century-five decades that transformed America-from the author of Only Yesterday.ĭuring the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before.
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