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The 1920s and a New Kind of Hero
  • History 203
  • April 4, 2007

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Some 1920s Links
  • Prosperity and Thrift The Coolidge Era Consumer
    Economy
  • An on-line hypertext edition of Babbitt, Sinclair
    Lewiss novel about business culture in the 1920s
  • The Famous Trials website has good
    presentations of some of the most important court
    cases of the 1920s. In addition to the Scopes
    Trial, you may be interested in
  • The Sacco-Vanzetti case Two immigrant anarchists
    charged with a robbery-murder near Boston
  • The Sweet case, involving racial conflict in
    1920s Detroit

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Some 1920s Links (continued)
  • On Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh An American
    Aviator
  • At the bottom of a page on the kidnap case,
    youll find an audio clip of an interview about
    Lindbergh with his biographer, A. Scott Berg.
  • The Famous Trials site on the Lindbergh baby
    kidnap case
  • The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    Foundation, Supporting Technological Solutions
    to Improve our Environment for a Sustainable
    Future

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A Prosperous Decade
  • Prosperity for Not-Quite-All
  • A Second Industrial Revolution
  • From Textiles, Coal and Railroads to Electricity,
    Chemicals and Automobiles
  • The problems of the Old Economy
  • Toward a Consumer Society

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Henry Ford and the Model T
6
Bruce Barton Jesus Christ as a Businessman
  • In 1925, prominent advertising man Bruce Barton
    published The Man Nobody Knows, a life of Jesus
    Christ that portrayed Christ as having the style
    of a modern businessman. Here are a few quotes
    from the book
  • Jesus picked twelve men up from the bottom ranks
    of business and forged them into an organization
    that conquered the world.
  • Take any one of the parables, no matter
    whichyou will find that it exemplifies all the
    principles on which advertising textbooks are
    written.
  • Success is always exciting we never grow tired
    of asking what and how. What, then were the
    principal elements in his power over men? How was
    it is that the boy from a country village became
    the greatest leader? First of all he had the
    voice and manner of the leader--the personal
    magnetism which begets loyalty and commands
    respect.
  • From Character to Personality
  • Toward a Culture of Images

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The Politics of Normalcy
  • ''America's present need is not heroics but
    healing, not nostrums but normalcy, not
    revolution but restoration.''
  • Warren G. Harding as Presidential candidate, 1920

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The Politics of Normalcy
  • A Republican Decade
  • Peace and Prosperity
  • Democrats in Disarray
  • Al Smith Campaign 1928A Catholic Runs for
    President
  • Origins of the New Deal Coalition?

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Lucky Lindy
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Lindbergh Does It!
  • Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974) Achievement and
    Acclaim To Paris in 33-1/2 Hours
  • Who Was He?
  • What Made Lindbergh a Hero?
  • Nobility in a Materialistic Era
  • Individualism in a Machine Age
  • Restoring Pioneer Virtues
  • Lindbergh is the heir of all that we like to
    think best in America. He is of the stuff out of
    which have been made the pioneers that opened up
    the wilderness.His are the qualities which we as
    a people must nourish.Outlook magazine, 1927

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  • The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It
    involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use
    of the latest developments of science. Mechanical
    engineers were fettered to factories and drafting
    boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with
    the expanse of sky. There were times in an
    aeroplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality
    to look down on earth like a God. Charles A.
    Lindbergh, 1927

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The Lone Eagle in His Era and Beyond
  • Heroism in a Consumer Culture
  • Life After the Flight
  • Aviation and Rocketry Consultant
  • Marriage to Anne Morrow
  • 1932 Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped
  • Lindbergh and the America First Movement
  • Lindbergh as Environmentalist "I realized that
    if I had to choose, I would rather have birds
    than airplanes."

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Lindbergh Visiting Germany
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  • "If any one of these groups--the British, the
    Jewish, or the administration--stops agitating
    for war, I believe there will be little danger of
    our involvement."            Charles Lindbergh-
    September 11, 1941

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Lindbergh as Conservationist
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