America

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................p.3

CHAPTER I. The rough beginnings……………………….....……………….p.5

1.1.         Cultures Merge............................................................p.5

1.2.         The Eye of Society.......................................................p.8

CHAPTER II. The four aces of the twenties………………………..……..p.10

2.1.         Woodrow Wilson........................................................p.12

2.2.         Warren G. Harding....................................................p.16

2.3.         Calvin Coolidge......................................................... p.17

2.4.         Herbert Clark Hoover................................................p.19

CHAPTER III. Lights, Music, Action………………………...................p.21

3.1.         The 1920’s boom.........................................................p.22

3.2.         The Jazz Age...............................................................p.27

3.3.         The Flapper and Fashion............................................p.29

3.4.         Famous Faces..............................................................p.35

CHAPTER IV. Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime…..p.38

4.1.         Prohibition..................................................................p.38

4.2.         Gangsters and the F.B.I..............................................p.41

4.3.         Alcatraz Prison...........................................................p.50

CONCLUSIONS............................................................................p.52

BIBLIOGRAPHY..........................................................................p.54