The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (History of American Civilization)

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (History of American Civilization)
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History; As you like it.

Excellent book on the 20's

Overview of One Chapter in American History.

Scandals and Speakeasies

Very Good and Informative Book about the 1920's

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (History of American Civilization)
William E. Leuchtenburg
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Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression, The Perils of Prosperity traces the transformation of America from an
agrarian, moralistic, isolationist nation into a liberal, industrialized power involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself.

William E. Leuchtenburg's lively yet balanced account of this hotly debated era in American history has been a standard text for many years. This substantial revision gives greater
weight to the roles of women and minorities in the great changes of the era and adds new insights into literature, the arts, and technology in daily life. He has also updated the
lists of important dates and resources for further reading.

“This book gives us a rare opportunity to enjoy the matured interpretation of an American Historian who has returned to the story and seen how recent decades have added meaning and vividness to this epoch of our history.”—Daniel J. Boorstin, from the Preface

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History; As you like it........2005-10-08

The Perils of Prosperity is an over view of the time period from 1914 to 1932. It covers
the highs and the lows of this period in a friendly and personable manner. Similar to FDR's
fireside chats this is an easy and informative read. It is like learning history from a relative
who lived in the time period. The thesis for the book is How America's prosperity of the
1920's was a false prosperity. The sterotype of the roaring twenties is a falacy and our author
tries to convey the failures our country experienced when dealing with minorities, imigrants,
politics, and religion. It does this by commenting on the manny different themes in the book.
Skillfully woven together this book knits together the fears and joys of the time period. Playing
on our fears, the author attempts to make the reader walk a day in the average American's
shoes. Play on our joys he attempts to show the reader what made the average American
happy. This is an attempt to personalize the work and allows the book to become a
bridge between our American heritage and our modern way of life.
Fear. It is a guiding and motivating factor for the majority of the book. It is as if the author
desires to show you that this period was one of growth and paranioa. A perilous balance was
being maintianed at all times between our fears and our joys. He wants to make you realize
why America wanted to be left alone in its isolationist roots. He succeeds in doing this, by
establishing a base work for America's isolation. He attempts to ground you in pre WWI
Americanism so you can understand why we were reluctant to get incolved in the affairs of the
world. This is a factor that will guide the United States on both the national and individual
levels for this entire period.
You also realize how alone the average America felt. We were alone as a nation to face our
own destiny and we were alone as a people to either suceed or fail by our own means. We also
had a growing imigrant population that was discriminated against. As such these imigrants were
led to believe that they had to fend for themselves. When the red scare comes into play you
quickly realized that America was a place for Americans and being different was frowned upon.
Sometimes with deadly results.
Our culture was also a changing place and we began placing an emphaiss on individual
wealth instead of communal growth. We had left the farms and decided to strike out on our
own. Capitalism had rose and we embraced it on all levels. As people left the farm they
came to the cities. As such they had to rely solely upon themselves and they came into
contact with new ideas and items. These material goods were then desired by this new
market. The fear of new ideas was still strong but American products and values were
considered safe so the public bought into it.
The fear turns into pain and suffering as America turns on its own. Blinded by fear we
persecute our own imigrants. Calling them communists and fearing the worste we attack
them and for the first time ever our country wages war against an idea. The fall out from
WWI has jaded our nation. As such we turn inward with horrific results. We also see the
business world go mad as it turns on its own employees. Workers begin to organize and
businesses become afraid. As such they send in security, troops, and even the government to
break the strikes. Violence breaks the back of the unions and forces them to their knees. We
also see the ugly head of fundamental religion rear in both the passing of the 18th
amendmant and the Scopes monkey trial. In the 18th Amendmant we see how a vocal group
of religous people are able to push their morality on the entire nation. While the Scopes
Monkey trail gives us hope that the light of science will banish the haze that faith has based
on the country.
But their is also joy during this time period. Technology improves and with it the American
family is drawn tightly together. No longer is the Average Joe passively taking his family to
church. Instead he begins to take them on "Sunday" drives in the new automobile. We also
see a rise in vacations and family out goings. The "modern" american begins to see the
country and the world with his family in toe.
The 19th ammendmant is passed and women are given the right to vote. This eliviates
some of the pressures upon women and they begin to take their role as equal political
partners in the american enviornment. In addition to voting women make huge gains during
this time period. The new woman cames about due to the sexual revolution and for the first
time a woman is truely free to do what she wants. The morals of the age are given some
slack and the woman of the 1920's is given the option of holding a job, raising a family, or
"socializing" with the men.
We also see the African American gain some ground during this time period. It is not
much but the impacts the African American has on the Jazz age is significant. For once it is
not bad to be black and the white man brings the black man's culture into his own. The
Harlem renaisance also stirs the creativity of the African American and their is an artistic
explosion among blacks in the North. These new styles, sounds, and themes, will help
influence both the white man's culture and the culture of the American people. While great
gains will be made in cultural integration between the arts and music, the African American
will still be left in the cold as a people. It is a mixed blessing. One in which the American
people begin to love the African's culture but still hate the person.
Our author tries to tell you that our nation is in flux. Caught between our old fears and our
new growth. The joy of prosperity is bringing us into the future but our fear of loss is keeping
us trapped in the past. Our nation is also heavily segregated at this time. For when we speak
of America we speak of White America. We have become a melting pot of the white races
and still have not blended well with the darker races. It is our arogance as a white nation that
keeps us from seeing how cultural diversity will make us stronger. This is a key idea backing
up the author's thesis. For the prosperity of the 1920's is good, as long as it is prosperity for
the white Amercian. All our failures as a nation, towards imigrants and blacks, are given a
blind eye and ignored. The culture of the 1920's does not recognize these subsets of America
as Americans. As such if they are not sharing in the prosperity of the nation it doesn't matter
since they are not part of white America.
This is where the main bias of the author comes into play. Our author is an eternal
optimist and sunshine and puppies rain eternally on America. What I mean by this is that even
when things look their worste the author puts a positive spin on it. Everything will work out in
the end and the sufferings of all these people and all these groups has helped our country grow
in the long run. This came across as a disgusting and pathetic excuse by our author for white
supremecy. Our botched attempts at race relations during this time period are not corrected
till the civil rights movement, yet our author down plays the terror , suffering, and plight of
the African American and the imigrant population. Instead of being objective, about race
relations, the book begins to fall for it's own form of white supremecy. As a result , even thought
imigrants and balcks were persecuted it wasn't really that bad. After all our country was in the
grips of a white dominated society. The whites made the rules and shared in the prosperity. The
white society did their best to help our the imigrant and African populations. They were just
limited by the ignorance of their own time period. I say this is a cop out by the author. The
author tries so hard to be politically correct that he tries not to offend either the white or black
readership of today. As such you get the feeling that he glosses over the rough spots in our own
history on race relations. As such he, the author, fails his audience in being a historian. If he is to
truely make a case for the prosperity of the 20's being a false prosperity, our author needs to
have as strong anarguement for the prosperity as the failures of it. Instead he builds you up with
the prosperity and benefits of this time period and gives warnings to the dire consequences of
wealth but his dealings with the inequalities in the distribution of this wealth are not as strong.
The arguments for the failures of our nation are not weighted as strongly as our sucesses. As
such his positive spin continually placates the reader and tells you that even though everything is
a little messed up, it will all work out in the end.
We also have a series of wars gripping the nation. These wars are all class based and
although violent their are no physical casualties. The greatest shake up comes from Freud. As
pyschology comes into play we learn about ourselves and what motivate us. This causes a
clash to break out between religion and science. These two juggernauts will butt heads
against each other time and time again during this time period with no clear winners or
loosers. The author suggests that this was a confusing time for most people and but a
natural process. In order to come to terms between these two titans our nation has to work
threw these issues.
We also have a class was raging between city folk and rural folks. Both want to be left alone,
yet both are are forced in placing thier views and morals above the other. It is a dangerous
predicament and one that stays with the country until a balance can be attained. Unfortunately
this balance never comes. Instead a demographic shift happens and more poeple move to and
live in the cities than in the country. As such city ways of living and city morals win out over the
rugged rural morals.
The author does an amazing job of referancing his material and gives you an incredible
peak at what life must have been like during these times. I feel that even with his bias he has
done a grand job of enlightening the reader that the stero type of the 1920's, all girls, glitter,
mone, and parties, was false. The country was in the grip of a bizarre revolution. One in
which the status or gender, religoin, minorites, and imigrants would be changed. It is as if
we, the modern scholar, has blinded himself to the excess of the twenties and has failed to
look critically at the time period. Mr. Leuchtenburg helps to refocus the reader and shreds
our preconcieved notions with his fine writtings and personable teachings.

I know not whether laws are right,
or whether laws are wrong.
All that we know,
is that we who live in gaul,
is that the wall is strong.
And everyday is like a year.
a year that is oh so long.
-- Oscar Wilde

Excellent book on the 20's.......2005-04-03

Leuchtenburg's book is an excellent work that shows in depth the various aspects of life in the 1920's. Whether you are interested in the pop culture, politics, or economics of the time, this book has it all. A very interesting and easy read. Recommended for people who want to learn about the 1920's and life in America during that time.

Overview of One Chapter in American History........2004-03-28

THE PERILS OF PROSPERITY 1914-1932 is a history book that gives readers a brief glimpse into American life during 1914-1932. The book is not meant to be a detailed account, but is rather an overview of events and attitudes of the United States at that time. I found the book to be easy to read, quite interesting, and full of information I had never come across before. Major events that the book discusses include the U.S. involvement in WWI, the U.S. decision not to become a member of the League of Nations, the Communist Red Scare that followed WWI, and the stock market crash of 1929. Events that women and minorities were major contributors of get special treatment while other big events, such as Prohibition, are briefly discussed. Overall, even though the book skimps over certain major issues and events, THE PERILS OF PROSPERITY provides a nice overview of the time period providing a more balanced account of women and minorities' contributions to the era. The end of the book includes a list of important dates. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone interested in American history of that period.

Scandals and Speakeasies.......2003-04-15

I had to read this book for my American History Since 1877 course. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading this book. I thought I knew about the 1920's, and after reading this book I knew that I knew nothing at all.

This book covers ever aspect of the decade and gives it more than just a name. The book covers political, economic, and social issues of the day. It explains the state of the nation in the previous decade as well to give us better understanding of what was to come at the decades end.

The book was also easy to understand and did not try to overcompensate with formal language. Anyone could understand the messages conveyed.

Overall I enjoyed this book and would read it again just to enjoy it.

Very Good and Informative Book about the 1920's.......2002-10-15

William Leuchtenberg wrote a very good and informative history about the 1920's. He explains life before 1914, World War 1, Prohibition, The Scopes Trial, The Teapot Dome Scandal, The Presidental Administrations of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, The Great Depression, and The 1932 Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also covers the role of Women, African-Americans, race relations, and The Ku-Klux-Klan. A book worth reading.

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PERILS OF PROSPERITY 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Perils of Prosperity 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Perils of Prosperity 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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This book traces the political, economic, social, and cultural phenomena that transformed America from an agrarian, primarily decentralized, moralistic, isolationist nation into an industrial, urban, morally liberalized nation involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself. Beginning with Wilson and the entrance of the United States into World War I, Mr. Leuchtenburg covers the range of subsequent events: the fight over the League of Nations; the postwar Red scares and Palmer raids; the politics and foreign policy of the Harding and Coolidge administrations; the fate of progressivism in the twenties; the revolution in morals; the impact of the prosperity of the twenties on American character; the "political fundamentalism" which resulted in immigration restriction, the Scopes trial, Prohibition, and the KKK; Hoover and the early years of the depression - all reflecting the conflict between rural and urban attitudes that reached its crisis in the presidential campaign of 1928 and was finally settled as an aftermath of the collapse of 1929.

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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32
William E. Leuchtenburg
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The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32
William E. (Editor) Leuchtenburg
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Conservatives are engaged in a campaign to turn back the clock on the common law-the law of contract, property, and personal injury-to increase the rights of big business. Some significant inroads have already protected gun manufacturers from lawsuits and hampered the government's protection of the environment, for example; more rollbacks are on the horizon. Insurance companies and HMOs are anticipating a huge bonus if the rights of patients are severely curtailed by Congress.

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Author is not into the spirit of liberty.......2006-06-22

This is an eye-opening book because it well shows where the opponents of tort reform are coming from. In particular, the author does not possess "the spirit of liberty" as Judge Learned Hand defined it: "the spirit which is not too sure it is right." Although the rich and powerful certainly would like to do anything they want without having to worry about liability, the system is clearly broken when:

1) municipalities have to close swimming pools and other facilities because of the threat of lawsuits

2) the MAJORITY of doctors are sued at least once

3) yes, a lady can recover damages from injuries suffered when she spilled coffee on herself - that was served at the recommended temperature - and even though it happened because she was balancing the said coffee on herself in a car

4) no company will undertake to come up with things that could help problems that pregnant women have (and Bendectin - which was never shown to cause any birth defects - was withdrawn by the manufacturer because the costs of fending off meritless lawsuits was too expensive)

And so on and so on.

But, as I said, this book is a good example of the kind of anti-business mentality that sees all economic activity not conducted by the government (which can't be sued) as fundamentally evil or at least morally suspect. It shows what ordinary people who simply want to solve the *obvious* problems with the tort system what they're up against.

Sore loser whines about getting slapped with the truth.......2005-04-03

Feinman is the classic leftist infecting American higher education today who is now worried that the game may be up. This book is probably the best example of elitist arrogance whining about how they can't deal with judicial law-making when it goes against their view of the world. "The common law" as leftist elitists like Feinman define it is the law written by fellow judicial activists who write laws that would never pass muster by a majority of the people, or their elected representatives. They invent unwritten rights with their decisions, and transform American society into something that could never happen if it weren't for activists like Feinman and his leftist ilk. Now that the conservatives are doing exactly what Feinman's fellow travelers have done over the last few generations, it is somehow "rolling back" the "Common Law".
this book is a great instruction on how the judiciary has become the nightmare of some of our founding fathers who worried that this "least important" of the three branches of government has arrogated to itself powers never envisioned by them. I recommend reading this book as one of the best examples of liberal arrogance that can be found.

Distortions of legal philosophy.......2005-03-31

Keeping an eye on all the fronts of the conservative attempts to destroy liberal America is not always easy, and this excellent account of the 'un-making' of law is a warning, and a reminder that changes are occurring beyond the threshold level of awareness of non-specialists. Here the issues of contract, property, and personal injury law and the rightwing effort to rewrite a century of legal writ are given a detailed look, and the result, in this very readably scholarly study, is especially insightful in the context of legal history: once again the story begins in the Gilded Age with its highly biased versions of common law, which a century of lawyers were able to critique. Now the conservatives are genuinely 'reactionary' and wish to erase all of the gains. Useful and important book for anyone who is not a legal specialist, but is concerned or confused by the current propaganda, e.g. about the issue of tort lae, about which alarmist scenarios are flushed through the media. So if you fell for the story about the lady winning a case for spilling coffee at MacDonald's (she suffered third degree burns...) this is the book to start with.

Good positive case, overbroad characterization of opposition.......2004-10-06

This is an excellent book on its positive side. I'm deducting a star because Jay Feinman paints his 'opposition' with such a broad brush. (In this respect he's a breath of fresh air next to, say, Michael Moore or Al Franken. Nevertheless that leaves considerable room for improvement.)

Feinman, also the author of the excellent _Law 101_ and a very clear expositor of legal issues, sets out here to defend a century's worth of development in American common law against those who would prefer to turn the legal clock back to 1900 (or before). Among his stated targets: classical liberals, libertarians, conservatives, neoconservatives, and pretty much everybody other than 'progressives'.

As a libertarian myself, I might not be expected to find this sort of thing congenial. But on a few subjects my libertarianism dresses to the left, and at any rate -- more to come on this point -- Feinman's arguments aren't quite as dependent on political ideology as he thinks they are.

The meat of his case is set out in the book's middle six chapters -- two each on tort law, contract law, and property law. In each of these areas, he contends, developments of the last century or so have rendered the common law more protective of the interests of the less wealthy and powerful, and it's important to preserve those advances.

I'm not an easy reader to please on this subject, and Feinman does about as well as it's possible to do: I agree with about two-thirds of what he writes, respect his arguments in most of the rest, and only once or twice feel like hurling the book against the wall. That may not sound like much, but it compares favorably with a lot of other legal commentators.

On tort law, I agree with so much of what he writes that the differences aren't worth discussing. He's right; the common law of torts is working just fine (i.e., as well as law ever does), and it would be mind-bendingly stupid to 'reform' it. (This subject is pretty ideology-independent. For example, my own favored reading of the Second Amendment is somewhere to the right of the NRA's, but I still think making it impossible to sue gun manufacturers is just plain dumb.)

In contract law, the heart of his claim is that twentieth-century liberalizations in interpretation and enforceability have provided protections to consumers who might otherwise (and previously did) find themselves stuck with vastly unfavorable contract terms that in many cases they might not even have read before 'agreeing' to them. Recent developments, he says, have undone those protections, to the detriment of consumers.

Here, too, I agree (he's especially good on the hazards posed by arbitration clauses) but with one misgiving. Feinman likes to pick on Judge Alex Kozinski and quotes him here as a proponent of the idea that 'loose' contract interpretation by the courts could make it hard for parties to a contract to tell with precision just what they were agreeing to.

Well, I don't think Judge Kozinski walks on water or anything, but he's much more sensible than Feinman gives him credit for. And in this case he's raising an entirely valid point -- and one that wouldn't tell one bit against Feinman's own case, if he handled it right. At the very least, I'd have liked to see an acknowledgement of the legitimacy of Kozinski's concern and an argument that modern contract law can address it (which I think it can, and Feinman seems to think so too). At any rate, there seems to be nothing wrong with admitting that there are sound arguments on _both_ sides of the issue, and that this is one of the things that make contract law so difficult.

With property law, we enter more dangerous waters. Feinman starts, wisely, with Wesley Hohfeld's seminal analysis of legal rights and duties, and contends mightily against an 'absolutist' view of property rights. Fine so far, and he racks up lots of points both in his positive discussion and in his counterarguments (e.g. on the subject of John Locke, whose theory of property rights contains an important proviso not generally discussed in the libertarian literature).

But Feinman seems unaware that many of his 'opponents' -- Richard Epstein, for example (whose view of 'takings' Feinman rightly notes is, to put it mildly, not what the framers meant) -- _also_ reject an 'absolutist' understanding of property rights. (Epstein, much to the embarrassment of some of his libertarian fellow travellers, is a utilitarian. Feinman uses 'absolute' to mean several different things, and Epstein would agree that property rights are not 'absolute' according to most of those meanings.) And he seems to find the (crucial) economic role of property rights not worth discussing -- a bit ironically, since he is so keenly aware of the role of economic incentives in getting tort claims litigated.

(Nor is it obvious why Epstein's departure from the framers' understanding of 'takings' is such a disaster, since Feinman himself allows closely analogous departures elsewhere. Our post-_Katz_ understanding of 'searches' is not, for example, limited to strictly physical property, but I don't see Feinman objecting to our extended Fourth Amendment protection.)

I could pick nits about this subject all day, so I'll just say that Feinman's positive arguments are good but would have benefitted from a more nuanced exposition of the views of his opponents. In the absence of such an exposition, I'm not at all sure that his shots are hitting their intended targets.

I think this is true in general of the entire book. Feinman's 'frame story' is that a bunch of conservatives are conspiring to repeal the twentieth century, and there's surely something to this story (whether good or bad). But in the process of telling it, he lumps together people who might be surprised to be found in one another's company.

(The metaphor 'repeal the twentieth century' isn't very apt here. You don't 'repeal' common law; you 'repeal' statutes. And it's true that lots of libertarians and conservatives -- including me -- would gladly repeal a large number of twentieth-century _statutes_. But Feinman's book isn't about statutory law; it's about the common law, with regard to which I don't believe there's any such consensus.)

A more unified approach to political theory would have helped. Feinman buries some of his points about the structure of federalism, and the relative roles of federal and state government, in the later portion of the book, but they'd have been handy in his discussion of torts too (where they're lurking implicitly but not stated clearly).

Also helpful would have been a clear statement that the market and the law go together in human society roughly as words and grammar go together in human language. Feinman doesn't want 'conservatives' to turn the clock back a century, but his own occasional bursts of anti-'market' rhetoric sound as though _they_ hail from around 1900.

On the whole, though, the strength of Feinman's arguments and examples carries the day. The heart of the book _is_ his positive case, and he makes it very well.

Highly recommended, then, despite my deduction of one star. Half the job in public discourse is to get the arguments and counterarguments clearly articulated, and you'll find Feinman helpful in that regard even if you disagree with everything he has to say. But you shouldn't; he's right a lot, and -- despite his anti-'conservative' presentation -- it's possible to agree with pretty much anything he says without changing your political alliances.

Un-Making Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law.(Book Review): An article from: Trial

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Based on first-hand research conducted by the Moscow Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies, this book documents the findings of one of the first authoritative studies on the newly independent states of Central Asia--Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirgizia, and Tadjikistan. Attention is also drawn to the causes and outcomes of the civil war in Tadjikistan as well as the growing international competition for access to the natural resources of the Central Asian countries.

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Consumer instalment credit and economic fluctuations (Studies in consumer instalment financing / Financial Research Program)
Gottfried Haberler
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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