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CHAPTER 10 THE NEW YORKER
Malcolm Cowley’s 1934 Exile’s Return gives a good flavor of the literary world in 1920s America, as do old copies of the periodicals of the day—the Saturday Evening Post, the American Mercury, Vanity Fair, Harpers, the Nation and of course the New Yorker. Harold Ross’s ex-wife Jane Grant (Ross, the New Yorker and Me, 1968) and his employee and friend James Thurber (The Years with Ross, 1959) both wrote excellent accounts of their lives with him and the New Yorker.
CHAPTER 11 “YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS TODAY”
In their different ways, the two best journalistic accounts of the Scopes trial are Joseph Wood Krutch’s 1962 More Lives than One and Henry Mencken’s bitterly funny articles for the Baltimore Evening Sun. The 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion by Edward Larson is a fantastic modern retelling of the events.
CHAPTER 12 THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
Lindbergh told the story of his flight with passion and eloquence in 1927 with We and in 1953 with The Spirit of St. Louis, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. For an overview of his life, Scott Berg’s 1998 biography is unbeatable.
CHAPTER 13 THE BIG FIGHT
Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney and Georges Carpentier all wrote their own life stories, although I also used Paul Gallico’s 1938 memoirs, Farewell to Sport. The best recent accounts of Dempsey’s rivalry with Tunney are Bruce Evensen’s 1996 When Dempsey Fought Tunney and an article in the Journal of American Studies 19 by E. J. Gorn, “The Manassa Mauler and the Fighting Marine.” I was also delighted to find that most of Dempsey’s fights (as well as footage of Charles Lindbergh) can be found on Youtube.
CHAPTER 14 CRASH
Neal Bascomb’s 2003 Higher traces the race between the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings to be the tallest building in the world. Although Maury Klein’s 2001 Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929 is excellent, nothing can surpass John Kenneth Galbraith’s 1961 The Great Crash.
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