Passing of Normalcy 1929

1929. The discovery of things which we never knew before has undoubted value, but the discovery of that which we already know is much more exciting. This may seem to be a book about Marion, Ohio, and especially about her chain stores. That will hardly describe it. It is a book about human life in America and what the modern business developments are doing to it. It is a book about the reader and the reader's children and about what makes them get that way. It is a book about his marriage and what is happening to it, and about his wife and what is happening to her; also about his church and his religion and his hope for a life beyond. It is also a book about art and culture and patriotism and sex and sin.