Rushmore flag pole sitting the rise of boxing and Jack Dempsey drew bigger crowds than baseball games Sacco and Vanzetti and the bombings before and after their trialsĬalvin Coolidge’s surprise announcement that he would not run for a second termġ927 was the peak year for Broadway shows Show Boat created the musical as we know it

The Florida real estate boom and the one-two knock-out hurricanes of 19 Henry Ford, the Models T and A the rubber boom and his Fordlandia settlement in Brazil tires only lasted 2000-3000 miles in those days Were the 1927 Yankees the best team ever? – Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig The Stock market “buy-now, pay-later” bubble leading up to the 1929 crash despite rapid economic growth, the decline of debt and zero inflation NYC became the world’s largest city the skyscraper boom The first national radio broadcasts and networks

The Bath, Michigan school bombing that killed 44 Prohibition, flappers and Al Capone (who really only had a 3-year reign as gangster king) (For young people, sash weights were heavy iron pipes used in the mechanism of wood windows.) The “sash weight murder” and the rise of the tabloids. Stories of early aviation and how the US was way behind Europe in scheduled commercial air travel If you read this book, here’s what you’ll get: The two main characters threaded throughout the book whose stories provide a framework for the whole are Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth. It’s really a collections of mini-biographies and vignettes of the major players and events of the 1920’a. But the most important learning for me is that there is so much we don’t know and doing understands and it’s ok to say that.A non-fiction work centered around events of one particular year but about the 1920’s in general. Throughout history, there have been quarrels, disagreements, cheating, double-crossing and so many transgressions.ħ. The older I get the harder it is to keep believing that everyone is basically good. It covers so much interesting activity on earth. I wrote about ‘herstory’ earlier this year on International Women’s Day.ĥ. I know it shouldn’t be a surprise but when history is condensed like this it really stands out. So much of what we now know is down to the passion, commitment and belief of just one person or a handful of people who had the tenacity, dogged determination and means to test out their theories even when derided or sidelined by prominent others at the time.Ĥ. Sending a golfing correspondent to cover a new scientific theory is one way of making sure it doesn’t get the coverage it deserves.ģ. Misreporting by the media is nothing new.

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