When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickfo

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"While modernists are currently so mired in the question of who did what to whom during World War II that they have lost a sense of intellectual urgency, the st

"To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble our own era, at the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses.