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The following list focuses on works written for readers of middle school or high school age. Books aimed at adult readers have been included when they are especially important in providing information or analysis that would otherwise be unavailable.
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Abels, Jules. In the Time of Silent Cal. New York: Putnam, 1989.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Perennial, 1964.
Allsop, Kenneth. The Bootleggers: The Story of Chicago's Prohibition Era. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1968.
Altman, Linda Jacobs. The Decade That Roared: America During Prohibition. New York: Twenty-First Century Books, 1997.
Andryszewski, Tricia. Immigration: Newcomers and Their Impact on the United States. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995.
Applebaum, Stanley, ed. The New York Stage: Famous Productions in Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1976.
Bacho, Peter. Boxing in Black and White. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
Bachrach, Deborah. The Importance of Margaret Sanger. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1993.
Bains, Rae. Babe Ruth. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1985.
Barry, James P. The Noble Experiment: 1919–33. New York: Franklin Watts, 1972.
Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Bateson, Mary Catherine. With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: William Morrow, 1984.
Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: The Man and the Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Bergreen, Laurence. Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
Berg, Scott. Lindbergh. New York: Putnam, 1998.
Berke, Art. Babe Ruth. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988.
Bernstein, Irving. The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
Berry, Michael. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Zora Neale Hurston. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 1986.
Blumhofer, Edith. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister. Grand Rapids, MI: Erdmans, 1993.
Bode, Carl. Mencken. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.
Boer, Lawrence, and John D. Walther, eds. Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: The Great Escape of the Twenties. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Press, 1990.
Brittin, Norman A. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Boston: Twayne, 1967. Rev. ed. 1982.
Burby, Lisa. N. Margaret Mead. New York: Rosen, 1996.
Burlingame, Roger. Henry Ford: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Knopf, 1969.
Brown, Sanford. Louis Armstrong. New York: Franklin Watts, 1993.
Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. New York: Knopf, 1978.
Cairns, Huntington. H.L. Mencken: The American Scene. New York: Vintage Books, 1982.
Calhoun, Randall. Dorothy Parker: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Candael, Kerry. Bound for Glory 1910–1930: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1996.
Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Twenties and Thirties. New York: New York University Press, 1989.
Chalmers, David. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1987.
Cheney, Robert W. A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Chesler, Ellen. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Cigney, Virginia. Margaret Sanger: Rebel with a Cause. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
Clark, Norman H. Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976.
Clinton, Susan. Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President of the United States. Chicago: Children's Press, 1988.
Coletta, Paolo E.. William Jennings Bryan—Political Evangelist, 1860–1908. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.
Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. The Fords: An American Epic. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Cowley, Malcolm, ed. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.
Creamer, Robert. Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
Crouch, Tom D., ed. Charles A. Lindbergh: An American Life. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1977.
Dardis, Thomas. Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
D'Augustino, Annette M. Harold Lloyd. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
De Camp, L. Sprague. The Great Monkey Trial. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
Dempsey, Jack, with Barbara Piatelli Dempsey. Dempsey. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Deutsch, Sarah Jane. From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women 1920–1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Donenberg, Barry. An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh. New York: Putnam, 1998.
Dooley, D.J. The Art of Sinclair Lewis. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
Douglas, Emily Taft. Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
Downes, Randolph C. The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding: 1865–1920. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970.
Dray, Philip. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. New York: Random House, 2002.
Driemen, John E. Clarence Darrow. New York: Chelsea House, 1992.
Dumenil, Lyn. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
Epstein, Daniel M. Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: Harcourt, 1993.
Epstein, Daniel. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Holt, 2001.
Evensen, Robert J. When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Fausold, Martin. The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.
Ferrell, Robert H. The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. America's Reign of Terror: World War I, the Red Scare, and the Palmer Raids. New York: Random House, 1971.
Finkelstein, Norman H. Sounds of the Air: The Golden Age of Radio. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1993.
Fisher, Jim. The Lindbergh Case. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Flink, Steven. The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century. Danbury, CT: Rutledge Books, 1999.
Freedman, Diane P. Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University, 1995.
Freedman, Russell. Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life. New York: Clarion, 1998.
Fremon, David K. The Great Depression in American History. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1996.
Frewin, Leslie. The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
Gerstle, Gary. Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gherman, Beverly. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
Gilbert, Thomas. The Soaring Twenties: Babe Ruth and the Home Run Decade. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.
Glabb, Charles N., in John Braemen, Robert H. Bremner, and David Body, eds. Change and Continuity in Twentieth Century America: The 1920s. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1968.
Goldberg, David J. Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997.
Goldston, Robert. The Great Depression: The United States in the Thirties. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1968.
Gould, Jean. The Poet and Her Book: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1969.
Gurko, Miriam. Restless Spirit: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1962.
Hardy, P. Steven, and Sheila Jackson Hardy. Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Children's Press, 2000.
Hanson, Erica. The 1920s. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999.
Haynes, John Earl. Calvin Coolidge and the Coolidge Era: Essays on the History of the 1920s. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998.
Heckscher, August. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. New York: Scribner, 1991.
Hemenway, Robert. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Herald, Jacqueline. Fashions of a Decade: 1920s. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Higdon, Hal. Crime of the Century: The Leopold & Loeb Case. New York: Putnam, 1975.
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism. New York: Atheneum, 1965.
Hoffman, Frederick J. The 1920s: American Writing in the Postwar Decade. New York: Free Press, 1965.
Hoff-Wilson, Joan. American Business and Foreign Policy, 1920–1933. Boston: Beacon, 1973.
Hoff-Wilson, Joan. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. Boston: Beacon, 1984.
Hoff-Wilson, Joan. Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.
Holway, John B. Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.
Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Howard, Lillie P. Zora Neale Hurston. Boston: Twayne, 1980.
Hutchisson, James M. The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.
Jacques, Geoffrey. Free Within Ourselves: The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.
Jablonsky, Edward, and Lawrence D. Stewart. The Gershwin Years. Doubleday and Co., 1973.
Jones, Max and John Chilton. Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
Kahn, Roger. A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia, 4th ed. New York: Harper Resource, 2001.
Katz, William Loren. The New Freedom to the New Deal 19131939. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993.
Kavanaugh, Jack. Shoeless Joe Jackson. New York: Chelsea House, 1995.
Kennedy, David M. Birth Control in American: The Career of Margaret Sanger. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
Kerr, Walter. The Silent Clowns. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Kent, Zachary. Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis in American History. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2001.
Kimball, Robert, and Alfred Simon. The Gershwins. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1972.
Kinney, Arthur. Dorothy Parker. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
Klein, Maury. Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Klingman, William K. 1919: The Year Our World Began. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Kobler, John. Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone. New York: Putnam, 1971.
LaBlanc, Michael L. Hotdogs, Heroes & Hooligans: The Story of Baseball's Major League Teams. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1994.
Lacy, Robert. Ford: The Men and the Machine. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1986.
Larson, Edward J. Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
Leavell, J. Perry, Jr. Woodrow Wilson. New Haven, CT: Chelsea House, 1987.
Leinwald, Gerald. 1927: High Tide of the 1920s. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001.
Levin, Phyllis Lee. Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Levine, Lawrence W. Defender of the Faith. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Lichtman, Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Seaview Books, 1980.
Lucas, Eileen. The Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments: Alcohol-Prohibition and Repeal. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2000.
Ludel, Jacqueline. Margaret Mead. New York: Franklin Watts, 1983.
Lynd, Robert S., and Helen M. Lynd. Middletown. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
Lynn, Kenneth C. Charlie Chaplin and His Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Lyons, Mary E. Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Scribner Book Company, 1990.
MacCann, Richard Dyer. The Silent Comedians.. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.
Macht, Norman. Babe Ruth. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.
Manchester, William. Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken. New York: Harper, 1951.
Marable, Manning. W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. Boston: Twayne, 1986.
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelism, 1870–1925. New York: Oxford University, 1980.
McCaffrey, Donald W. Four Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, and Langdon. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1968.
McCoy, Donald R. Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
McCutcheon, Marc. Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1995.
McKissack, Patricia and Frederick McKissack Jr. Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Scholastic Trade, 1994.
McPherson, Edward. Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat. New York: Newmarket Press, 2005.
Meade, Marion. Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? New York: Penguin, 1989.
Meltzer, Milton. Langston Hughes. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1997.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. New York: Random House, 2001.
Miller, Nathan. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Milton, Joyce. Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Moore, Edward A. A Catholic Runs for President: The Campaign of 1928. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
Moore, Gloria. Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement: A Bibliography, 1911–1984. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
Mowry, George E., ed. The Twenties: Fords, Flappers, and Fanatics. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith/Prentice Hall, 1963.
Nash, George H. The Life of Herbert Hoover, Vol. I. New York: Norton, 1983.
Ness, Eliot. The Untouchables. New York: Messner, 1957; 1987 reprint.
Nevins, Allan, and F.E. Hill. Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company. New York: Scribner, 1954.
Nierman, Judith. Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977.
Noggle, Burl. Into the Twenties: The United States from Armistice to Normalcy. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1974.
Noggle, Burl. Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics in the 1920s. New York: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Nye, Frank T., Jr. Door of Opportunity: The Life and Legacy of Herbert Hoover. West Branch, IA: The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, 1988.
Ogren, Kathy J. The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
O'Keeffe, Georgia. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Viking Press, 1976.
Orgill, Roxanne. If I Only Had a Horn: Young Louis Armstrong. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Orgill, Roxanne. Shout, Sister, Shout! Ten Girl Singers Who Shaped a Century. New York: Margaret McElderry, 2001.
Paige, Leroy "Satchel" and David Lipman. Maybe I'll Pitch Forever. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Parker, Dorothy. Enough Rope. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.
Parrish, Michael E. Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression. New York: Norton, 1992.
Pegram, Thomas. Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 1998.
Perret, Geoffrey. America in the Twenties. New York: Touchstone, 1982.
Polikoff, Barbara G. Herbert C. Hoover: 31st President of the United States. Ada, OK: Garrett Educational Corporation, 1990.
Randolph, Blythe. Charles Lindbergh. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.
Reef, Catherine. George Gershwin: American Composer. Greensboro, NC: Morgan Reynolds, 2000.
Ribowsky, Mark. Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Roberts, Randy. Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Robinson, David. Chaplin: His Life and Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Russo, Guy. The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.
Ruth, George Herman. The Babe Ruth Story as Told to Bob Considine. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1948.
Sanger, Margaret. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
Schoenberg, Robert. Mr. Capone: The Real—and Complete—Story of Al Capone. New York: Morrow, 1992.
Schorer, Mark. Sinclair Lewis: An American Life. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.
Schroeder, Alan. Charlie Chaplin: The Beauty of Silence. New York: Franklin Watts, 1997.
Schwartz, Charles. Gershwin: His Life and Music. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1973.
Seymour, Harold. Baseball: The Golden Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Sharman, Margaret. 1920s. New York: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers, 1992.
Shirley, David. Satchel Paige. New York: Chelsea House, 1993.
Sinclair, Andrew. Prohibition: The Era of Excess. New York: Harper Colophon, 1964.
Slayton, Robert A. Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Smith, Robert. Pioneers of Baseball. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Smith, Toby. Kid Blackie: Jack Dempsey's Colorado Days. Ouray, CO: Wayfinder Press, 1987.
Sobel, Robert. Coolidge: An American Enigma. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1998.
Sobel, Robert. The Great Bull Market: Wall Street in the 1920s. New York: Norton, 1968.
Stenerson, Douglas C. H.L. Mencken: Iconoclast from Baltimore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
Stevenson, Elizabeth. Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Stieglitz, Alfred. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.
Teachout, Terry. A Life of H.L. Mencken. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Thomas, Lately. Storming Heaven: The Lives and Turmoils of Minnie Kennedy and Aimee Semple McPherson. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973.
Tierney, Kevin. Darrow: A Biography. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979.
Tessitore, John. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dreamer. New York: Franklin Watts, 2001.
Trani, Eugene P., and David L. Wilson. The Presidency of Warren G. Harding. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.
Turnbull, Andrew. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Scribner, 1962.
Wagenheim, Karl. Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend. Chicago, Olmstead Press, 2001.
Ward, Geoffrey, and Ken Burns. Jazz: A History of America's Music. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Weinberg, Arthur, and Lila Weinberg. Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel. New York: Putnam, 1980.
Weiner, M.R., and John Starr. Teapot Dome. New York: Norton, 1965.
Whittingham, Richard. Rites of Autumn: The Story of College Football. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Woog, Adam. Louis Armstrong. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1995.
Wukovitz, John F. The 1920s. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2000.
Yanuzzi, Della A. Ernest Hemingway: Writer and Adventurer. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.
Yanuzzi, Della A. Zora Neale Hurston: Southern Story Teller. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.
Yapp, Nick, ed. The 1920s. New York: Konemann, 1998.
Ziesk, Edna. Margaret Mead. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.
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