The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course US History, and today we're gonna learn about one of the best eras ever:the 1920s.The 20s gave us jazz, movies, radio, making out in cars, illegal liquor,and the 20s also gave us prosperity--although not for everybody--and gangsters, and a consumer culture based on credit,and lots of prejudice against immigrants,and eventually the worst economic crisis the US has ever seen.Mr. Green, Mr. Green, but what about Gatsby?Yeah, me from the past, it's true that Gastby turned out all right in the end,but what preyed on Gatsby,what foul dust trailed in the wake of his dreams,did temporarily close out my interest in the aborted sorrows and short-winded elations of men.*theme music*So there's a stereotypical ...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course US History, and today we're gonna learn about one of the best eras ever:the 1920s.The 20s gave us jazz, movies, radio, making out in cars, illegal liquor,and the 20s also gave us prosperity--although not for everybody--and gangsters, and a consumer culture based on credit,and lots of prejudice against immigrants,and eventually the worst economic crisis the US has ever seen.Mr. Green, Mr. Green, but what about Gatsby?Yeah, me from the past, it's true that Gastby turned out all right in the end,but what preyed on Gatsby,what foul dust trailed in the wake of his dreams,did temporarily close out my interest in the aborted sorrows and short-winded elations of men.*theme music*So there's a stereotypical ...
