Warren G. Harding, Senator from Ohio, was elected President in 1920. Harding’s greatest assets were the fact that he was extremely handsome and that “[H]e
Coolidge succeeded Harding upon his untimely death. Characteristic of the bland politics of the times, Coolidge made a habit of taking long naps in the
Consumerism During The Twenties, GNP rose from $74 billion to $104.4 billion. (TFC, Vol. III, p. 25) and the buying power of wages increased 50%
We noted the growth of the credit economy above. Stock brokers even began allowing the purchase of stocks on credit, a practice called “margin”. People
F. Scott Fitzgerald looked back at and reflected on the Jazz Age in his 1931 essay “Echoes of the Jazz Age”. He seemed to question