Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Only Yesterday tells the story of the Roaring Twenties -- the decade that really began with the Armistice in November 1918 and ended in economic catastrophe and the Great Depression in 1929. Written in 1931, author Frederick Lewis Allen captures the decade in all its scandalous glory: Prohibition and the rise of speakeasies, flappers and the rise of hemlines, and prosperity and the rise of stock prices. Allen's lively narrative brings back a wealth of forgotten events, fashions, and absurdities, uniquely capturing the feel of a long-forgotten era.

Frederick Lewis Allen (1890 - 1954) was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1912. He served on the editorial staffs of the Atlantic Monthly and Century magazines and was editor in chief of Harper's magazine from 1941 until his death.

"A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism." -- Chicago Daily Tribune