Most history professors and journalists prefer to avoid long discussions on the era. If you do go and research the period....it's probably best nine years of American society (up until 1929 and the fall of Wall Street) of the past century.
What made the era different? I lay the change that occurred over seven key things.
1. WW I and the survivors of the war came back and lived remarkable lives. Whether it was boot-camp, the itself, or the comradery.....guys changed.
2. Prohibition. Saloons were the norm until 1919. After that point, speak-easy operations and hidden clubs became the norm. It should be noted that with the prohibition era.....came women drinking more.
3. Cars and roads went to make society mobile.
4. Movies started to get made, and people were introduced to a new form of entertainment.
5. Radios started to become reality.
6. Baseball went to become a national sport, and was often discussed by the working-class.
7. A housing boom started to take place in this era.
Life changed in this era, and in some ways.....we laid the path to 1929 and the depression that followed.
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