The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950

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.

During 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. Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor of Harper's magazine, recounts these years-spanning World War I, the Progressive...