First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work.
JULIE HUSBAND is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.
JIM O'LOUGHLIN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.