Dreiser, Theodore, 107
Driggs, Elsie, 23, 24
Dumenil, Lynn, 8
Dunn, Jack, 129
Durant, Will, 103
Earl, Harley, 20
“East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” (Ellington), 170
Edison, Thomas, 148
Eighteenth Amendment, 33, 34
Elizabeth Ann Guild, 97, 98
Elizabeth Ann League, 97
Ellington, Duke, 132, 169–72, 182
Elmer Gantry (Lewis), 14, 39–40, 48
“Empire” (Lippmann), 191
Erenberg, Lewis A., 9
Eriksson, Leif, 48
Espionage Act (1917), 30, 33
ethnic societies, 48
Evans, Wainwright, 61
evolution, 33–34
Fairbanks, Douglas
the Academy and, 148, 149
film roles of, 141–42, 143, 149
Pickford and, 10–11, 135 (photo), 137, 138–39, 141, 145, 146
traditional values and, 10–11, 137, 138–39
Fansteel Products Company, 187
Farrell, Charles, 149
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 173
Federal Farm Loan Board, 87
Federal Intermediate Credit Corporations, 87
Federal Radio Commission (FRC), 173, 176, 180, 181, 184, 195–96
Feiker, Frederick M., 94
Felix, Edgar H., 185–88
feminism, 53–55
Ferber, Edna, 70, 71, 73
Ferriss, Hugh, 26
Fields, Dorothy, 169
films. See motion picture industry; movies
Firpo, Luis Angel, 116–17
Fisher, Rudolph, 168
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 164
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 8, 55, 56, 107, 155
5 O’Clock Girl (play), 66
Flannery, Vaughn, 20–21
flappers, 53–54, 55, 56
Fleming, Victor, 60
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, 158, 159, 162, 170
Flood Control Act (1928), 75, 85
Flood Credits Corporation, 87
Flynn, Billy, 108
Folk Song of the American Negro (Work), 165
Fonck, René, 2
football, 122–27
Ford, Henry, 10, 14, 27, 48, 112
extended credit and, 16–17
industrial philosophy of, 15, 18, 19, 20, 26
Fordism, 15, 17, 18, 20, 26
Ford Motor Company
advertising/marketing and, 15–16, 20–21
Model A, 17–18, 19, 20, 26
Model T, 15–16, 17, 20, 195
production methods of, 15, 17–18, 19, 20, 26
River Rouge Plant, 12, 14, 17–18, 21–22
Frankfurter, Felix, 30–31
Frazee, Harry, 129
Friede, Donald, 27
“From the Land of Dreams” (Still), 165
Fugitives (poets), 85
Fuller, Alvan, 31, 32
Gaertner, Belva, 107, 108
Gallico, Paul, 114–15, 116
Gardella, Tess, 73
Gaucho, The (film), 141–42, 143, 149
Gaynor, Janet, 149
Gehrig, Lou, 128, 130, 132–33
General Motors, 17, 19–20, 26, 35
Gershwin, George, 162
Get Your Man (film), 56, 58–59
Giants of the Earth (Rolvaag), 44–45, 196
Gibbons, Cecil, 148
Gibbons, Tommy, 117
Gibson Girl, 53, 55
Glazer, Benjamin, 149
Glyn, Elinor, 56
God’s Trombones, 163–64
Good News (film), 127
Gorn, Elliott J., 121, 122
Gosden, Freeman, 137, 182, 183–84
“Grand Canyon Suite” (Grofé), 163
Grandmothers, The: A Family Portrait (Wescott), 44, 46–47
Grant, Robert, 31
Grauman, Sid, 145–46, 147
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 145–46
Gray, Henry Judd, 7, 10, 99–103, 104, 105, 111, 112, 134. See also Snyder-Gray trial
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 107
Green, Curtis, 81
Greenville, Mississippi, 76–77
Grey, Zane, 107
Griffith, D. W., 103, 139, 150
Grofé, Ferde, 162–63, 196
Guinan, Texas, 10, 66–68
Hall, Edward, 105
Hammerstein, Oscar, 70, 196
Hardin, Lil, 158, 159
Harding, Florence, 98
Harding, Warren G., 89, 96–98
Hardwick, Otto, 171
Harlem, 163, 167–68, 169, 172
Harlem Renaissance, 11, 138, 155, 163, 164, 166, 167, 170, 172, 188, 196
Hart, William S., 146
Haskell, Barbara, 197
Hayes, Helen, 68
Hays, William H., 143
Hays Office, 143
Headin’ Home (film), 131
Heap, Jane, 25
Hearst, William Randolph, 103
Hemingway, Ernest, 8, 150
Henderson, Fletcher, 158, 159, 162, 165, 170
Herbst, Josephine, 28–29, 33
Her First Affaire (play), 66
Hermann, John, 28
High Tide of the Twenties (Leinwald), 7
Hofstadter, Richard, 43
Hollingworth, Leta, 55
Hood, Raymond, 26
Hoover, Herbert, 7
Mississippi River flood and, 75, 79, 80, 86–90, 95
political support for, 89, 95
publicity and, 10, 86, 89–90, 93, 94–96, 110, 112, 134
radio regulations and, 173, 175–77
as Secretary of Commerce, 75, 79, 86, 94–95, 173, 175
Hoover v. Intercity Radio Company, 175
Hounshell, David, 26
Howard, Thomas, 104
Hoyt, Waite, 128
Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 9
Hughes, Langston, 166–67
Hula (film), 56, 60
Hunter, Alberta, 158
illegitimate children, 96–97, 98
I’ll Take My Stand, 85
immigrants, 33, 44–46
imperialism, American, 191–92
individuality, 4, 14, 29–30, 195
individual rights, 29–30
International News Service, 83
It (film), 50, 56–58
It (Glyn), 56
Jannings, Emil, 149
jazz
African American, 11, 137, 155–56, 157–61, 165, 166–67, 169
authentic, 160, 169
Chicago, 157–58, 169
“hot,” 158, 159, 160, 162, 169
New Orleans, 157, 158, 159, 160
New York–style, 157–58, 169
origin of, 155, 157, 161, 163
white musicians and, 11, 156, 157, 162–63, 165, 169, 172
Jazz (Whiteman and McBride), 163
Jazz Singer, The (film), 7, 137, 151, 152, 153–55, 156, 158
Jesus
portrayal of, as businessman, 36, 37, 38
portrayal of, in movies, 143–44, 154–55
Jews, portrayal in movies of, 153–54, 156
Johnson, Jack, 168
Johnson, James Weldon, 163–64, 165, 172
Jolson, Al, 76, 151, 152, 153, 155
Jones, Bobby, 113
Joughin, Louis, 32
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins, 103
Kalstedt, Harry, 107
Kellogg, Frank, 176
Kern, Jerome, 70, 196
Kieran, John, 120
King of Kings, The (film), 143–45, 146, 153, 154
Knudsen, William, 18
Kobler, John, 102, 103
Ku Klux Klan, 33, 34, 47–48
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 127, 129
Larrimore, Francine, 103
Lasky, Jesse, 147
Law, Walter, 107
Lazzeri, Tony, 128
Le Corbusier, 197
Lee, John, 78
Leinwald, Gerald, 7
Levine, Lawrence, 8
Lewis, Sinclair, 14, 39–40, 48, 49, 197
Lincoln Motors, 20
Lindbergh, Charles, xi (photo), xii, 1–7, 11, 27, 48, 112
Lindsey, Ben, 61–65, 68
Lippmann, Walter, 34, 109–10, 111–12, 191–92
Lipsyte, Robert, 113, 114
literature
on American character, 193–94
crime fiction, 106–7
history in, 15, 42–46
religion and, 14–15, 40–42
Lloyd, Harold, 146, 148
Locke, Alain, 164, 165, 167
Lohof, Bruce, 86–87
Lonardo, Joseph, 104
Long, Huey, 76
Lopez, Vincent, 165
Loring, Hope, 59
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 31
Lozowick, Louis, 23, 24–25, 26
Lytle, Andrew, 85
Machine-Age Exposition, 24, 25–26
Macpherson, Jeanie, 147
Madden, Owen “Owney,” 168
Main Street (Lewis), 39
Man Nobody Knows, The (Barton), 36
Man o’ War, 113
Marchand, Roland, 9
Marconi, Guglielmo, 179
marriage, 55, 57–60, 61–64, 65–66, 68, 70, 72
mass production, 17, 26, 35, 194–95
materialism, 40, 190. See also consumerism
May, Elaine Tyler, 9
May, Lary, 9
Mayer, Louis B., 147
McBride, Mary Margaret, 163
McFadden, Bernard, 103, 105
McHugh, Jimmy, 169
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 65, 67, 103
“Meaning of Lindbergh’s Flight, The” (Ward), 3
Means, Gaston, 98
media. See press; radio
Melville, Louisiana, 80–81
Mencken, H. L., 95
Men of Destiny (Lippmann), 111
Merz, Charles, 104
Michigan Stadium, 124
Milbank, Jeremiah, 146
Miley, Bubber, 171
Miller, Nathan, 7–8
Mills, Eleanor, 105
Mills, Irving, 169–70
minstrel shows, 184
Minter, Mary Miles, 142
Mississippi River flood, 7, 74
African Americans and, 52–53, 76–81, 88–89
media and, 83, 89–90
Red Cross and, 78–80, 81, 82, 83–84, 86–87, 89
U.S. government’s role and, 75, 78, 79–80, 82, 83, 84–85, 86–89, 95
“Mississippi Suite” (Grofé), 162–63, 196
Mix, Tom, 146
Modern Temper, The (Dumenil), 8
Moore, Colleen, 146
Moore, Wilcy, 128
Moreno, Antonio, 56
Morgan, Anne, 115
Morgan, Edmund M., 29, 32
motion picture industry
celebrity culture of, 138
censorship and, 142–43, 147, 151
respectability of, 10, 137, 138–39, 147
traditional values and, 10–11, 137, 138–39, 141, 196
unionization in, 147
See also movies
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), 143, 147, 151
Moton, Robert R., 80, 81, 88
Mountbatten, Lord and Lady, 139
movies
Bow in, 50, 56, 57–60, 69, 72–73, 149, 150
Fairbanks in, 141–42, 143, 149
marriage portrayed in, 58–60, 61–64, 65–66
Pickford in, 139–41, 142, 149
religion in, 143–44, 154–55, 197
silent, 152–53
sound technology and, 151–52, 153, 155
sports and, 127
war, 149–50
women portrayed in, 55–56, 59, 68–72
See also motion picture industry
murder trials
popularity of, 104–6
See also Sacco-Vanzetti case; Snyder-Gray trial
music
black folk and spiritual, 164–65
celebration of technology in, 27–29
classical, 160, 163, 179
See also jazz
My Best Girl (film), 140–41, 149
My Egypt (Demuth), 189, 190, 197
My Own True Story—So Help Me God! (pamphlet), 102
NAACP, 10, 79, 80
Nagel, Conrad, 147
Nanton, Joe, 171
Nash, Roderick, 8
National Football League, 122
National Guard, 84, 87
National Origins Act (1924), 33, 34
Native Americans, 42
Navy, U.S. Department of, 176
NBC (National Broadcasting System), 173, 177, 178
“Negro and the Flood, The” (White), 81
Negro Hour, The, 184
Nervous Generation, The (Nash), 8
Neue Sachlichkeit movement, 23
New Deal, 82
New Negro, The (Locke), 164, 165
New Orleans
flood and, 76, 89
jazz, 157, 158, 159, 160
New Republic, 179
newspapers. See press
“new woman,” 10, 52, 53, 55, 58, 61, 65, 66, 67, 89, 109, 138, 196
New World Coming (Miller), 7–8
New York
boxing in, 115–16, 119
jazz, 157–58, 169
night clubs, 67, 161–62
radio in, 173, 178, 179, 183, 189
Snyder-Gray trial in, 91, 99–104
See also Harlem; Harlem Renaissance
New York Daily Mirror, 103, 105, 195
New York Daily News, 91, 104, 105
New York Evening Graphic, 103, 105, 195
New York Herald Tribune, 123
New York Illustrated Daily News, 103, 105, 195
New York Times, 104, 120
New York World, 17
New York Yankees, 128–29, 130–31
Niblo, Fred, 147
Nilsson, Anna Q., 131
No No Nanette! (play), 129
Normand, Mabel, 142
Norse-American Immigration Centennial Celebration, 45
Norwegian Americans, 44–45
Notre Dame University football, 113, 123, 124–25, 126
Nungesser, Charles, 2
O’Brien, W. W., 108
Ogren, Kathy, 156
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 23, 24
Okeh Records, 159
Oliver, King, 158
“Ol’ Man River,” 73–74
Oriard, Michael, 122
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 157
Orteig, Raymond, 2
Orvell, Miles, 25
Ory, Kid, 159
Paddock, Charlie, 113
Padlocks of 1927 (Broadway show), 67
Paley, William, 178
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 33
Palmer Raids, 33
patriotic organizations, 47–48
Paul Whiteman Orchestra, 160, 161–63, 165, 169, 170
Pay Day (Asch), 32
Peder Victorious (Rolvaag), 45
Pennock, Herb, 128
Percy, LeRoy, 77, 78
Peyton, Dave, 161, 167
Philco (Philadelphia Storage Battery Company), 174–75
Phillips, H. I., 128
photography, industrial, 12, 20–22
Pickford, Charlotte, 141
Pickford, Jack, 141
Pickford, Lottie, 141
Pickford, Mary
the Academy and, 148, 149
Fairbanks and, 10–11, 135 (photo), 137, 138–39, 141, 145, 146
film roles of, 139–41, 142, 149
traditional values and, 10–11, 137, 138–39, 141, 196
pioneer spirit, 46–47
Pittsburgh Pirates, 128
plantation system, 77, 82, 85–86, 88, 89
Pomeroy, Roy, 148
Ponce de Leon, Charles L., 9
Pop Question Game, The, 186
Pound, Ezra, 28
precisionists, 22, 23–24, 25–27
President’s Committee on Relief, 79, 83, 86
President’s Daughter, The (Britton), 97–98
press
crime reporting and, 102–5, 106, 107–9, 195
Hoover and, 10, 86, 89–90, 93, 94–96, 112
Mississippi River flood and, 83, 89–90
role of, 130, 195
sensationalism and, 108–11, 112
Snyder-Gray trial and, 102–5, 109
sports writing, 112–14, 120, 122–23, 124–26, 195
tabloid, 93–94, 103, 105, 109, 195
“Progress and Nostalgia” (Levine), 8–9
Progressive movement, 111
Prohibition, 33
publicity
created by the press, 93–94, 108–11, 112
Ford and, 15, 16, 20
Hoover and, 10, 86, 89–90, 93, 94–96, 110, 112, 134
Lippmann on, 109–10
Pupin, Michael I., 179–80
purism movement, 23
racism, 42, 73–74, 75, 77–82, 88–89, 167
radio
advertising, 174–75, 177–78, 180–81, 184–88
Babe Ruth on, 132
commercial, 180, 181, 185–86
educational role of, 11, 138, 178–79, 180, 188
government regulation of, 173, 175–77, 180, 188, 195
independent, stations, 181, 195
licensing, 175, 176, 180, 181, 195–96
Mississippi River flood and, 83
national, 177, 180–88
networks, 173, 177–78, 181, 195
nonprofit, 180
number of listeners, 178
programming, 174, 181
racial stereotypes on, 137, 182–84, 188
respectability of, 10, 137–38
sports on, 116, 119
technology, 173, 174–75
Radio Act (1912), 175, 176
Radio Act (1927), 173, 176, 180, 181, 184, 188, 195
Radio Group Network, 177, 178
Rainey, Ma, 158
Ralston, Esther, 59
Ralston, Jobyna, 150
Ransom, John Crowe, 85
Rappe, Virginia, 142
RCA (Radio Corporation of America), 173, 174, 177, 178, 182
Red Cross, 74, 78–80, 81, 82, 83–84, 86–87, 89
Redmond, Sidney Dillon, 79
Reid, Wallace, 142
Reiner, Fritz, 179
religion
business and, 35–40, 197
in film, 143–44, 154–55, 156, 197
industrial age and, 14–15
literature and, 14–15, 40–42
Republican Party, 75, 89
Revelry (Adams), 98, 108
Revolt of Modern Youth, The (Lindsey), 61, 63
“Rhapsody in Blue” (Gershwin), 162
Rice, Grantland, 112–14, 123, 128, 132
Rickard, Tex, 115, 119, 121
Riesenfeld, Hugo, 153
Rise of American Civilization, The (Beard and Beard), 43–44
Robeson, Paul, 182
Rockne, Knute, 124–26, 127
Rogers, Charles “Buddy,” 140, 150
Rogers, J. A., 165, 166, 167
Rogers, Merrill, 66
Rogin, Michael, 156
Roland, Gilbert, 60
Rolvaag, Ole Edvart, 44–46, 47, 49, 196