Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: The Great Escape of the Twenties

by Lawrence R. Broer (Editor)

Often, the decade of the 1920s has been stereotyped with such labels as “The Roaring Twenties,” “The Jazz Age,” or “The Lost Generation.” Historical perspective has forced reevaluation of this decade. Articles in this collection are presented in the most definitive anthology dealing with 1920s America.
    The contributors have put aside stereotypes to offer a valuable critique of the American dream during a time of major crises. Dancing Fools and Weary Blues also presents its readers a picture of the continual redemption and revitalization of that dream, and reasserts its basic democratic values.

202 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Lawrence R. Broer is a professor emeritus of English at the University of South Florida and the author or editor of eight previous books, including Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in
the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Hemingway's Spanish Tragedy.