Analysis of FDR's New Deal

dreteryhtutyhjguytuytdecade of the 1920s is often characterized as a period of Americanprosperity and optimism. It was the "Roaring Twenties," the decade of bath tub gin, the model T,the $5 work day, the first transatlantic flight, and the movie. It is often seen as a period of greatadvance as the nation became urban and commercial (Calvin Coolidge declared that America's business was business). The decade is also seen as a period of rising intolerance and isolation: chastened by the first world war, historians often point out that Americans retreated into a provincialism evidenced by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the anti radical hysteria of the Palmer raids, restrictive immigration laws, and prohibition. Overall, the decade is often seen as a period of great contradiction: of rising optimism...