Babbitts and Bohemians from the Great War to the Great Depression

Babbits and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the one hand, it was an era of sameness and political conformity, but on the other hand, it was also a time of cultural revolt. In places labeled Main Street and Middletown, the citizenry followed a conventional pattern. At the same time, while most of America enjoyed the good life of this period, bohemians in Greenwich Village and expatriates in Paris were fervently scornful of it.