Readers will enjoy his breezy and often tongue-in-cheek style, making this anything but a dry trudge.Īllen covers all the highlights of the years 1919 through 1929, among them the incapacitated years of Woodrow Wilson, the scandal-plagued presidency of Warren G. Frederick Lewis Allen worked as a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, later, in 1941, assuming the position of editor-in-chief. Only Yesterday is a contemporaneous history published two years after the 1929 stock market crash, as well as shortly after the Florida Land Bubble bust that began in 1925 (and is argued to be the precipitating cause of the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton in his recent book, Bubble in the Sun). Read it for yourself to see the truth in this. Errors made then are still being made today. Those new to Only Yesterday will only have to read a few chapters to see how true these statements are, because the parallels between the 1920s and current times are numerous. Consequently, we repeat mistakes over and over again. Not just people today, but people throughout history have ignored the lessons taught by events preceding them. History teaches many lessons but people are bad pupils.
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