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  Index

  Page numbers reflect those in print edition.

  Abbott, George, 68

  Academy Awards, 151

  Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 137, 147–49, 151–52

  Producers-Technicians Joint Committee, 151

  Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 98, 108

  advertising

  automobile industry and, 15–16, 20

  industrial photography and, 12, 20–22

  religion and, 35–36, 39

  African Americans

  blackface portrayals of, 73, 137, 156, 183, 184

  cultural changes and, 52–53

  equality and, 10, 52, 73, 74, 75

  folk music and spirituals of, 164–65

  as intellectuals, 163, 164, 166, 167

  jazz and, 11, 137, 155–56, 157–61, 165, 166–67, 169

  migration north of, 75, 77, 157

  Mississippi flood and, 52–53, 76–81, 88–89

  photo of, 51

  poetry of, 163–64, 166–67

  political alignment of, 75, 89

  as preachers, 163–64

  racism and, 73–74, 75, 77–82, 88–89, 167

  stereotyping of, in entertainment, 73, 137, 156, 168–69, 172–73, 182, 183–84, 196

  See also Harlem Renaissance

  Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), 82

  Akerson, George, 94, 95

  Alba, Duke and Duchess of, 139

  Allen, Frederick Lewis, 7, 8

  America Arraigned! 32

  America Comes of Age: A French Analysis (Siegfried), 190

  “Americanization of Art, The” (Lozowick), 24

  American Legion, 47–48

  American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 107

  Amos ’n’ Andy, 136 (photo), 137, 182, 184

  Annan, Beulah, 107, 108

  Answer, The (De Barthe), 98

  Antheil, George, 27–28, 29

  Arbuckle, Fatty, 142

  Archibald, Jean, 65

  Arlen, Harold, 169

  Arlen, Richard, 150

  Armstrong, Lil Hardin, 158, 159

  Armstrong, Louis, 158–60, 162, 169

  Army Corp of Engineers, U.S., 75, 84–85

  Arnesberg, Walter, 21

  Arrowsmith (Lewis), 39

  art, industrial subjects in, 12, 14, 20–27, 189–90, 197–98

  Arzner, Dorothy, 59

  Asch, Nathan, 28, 32

  Associated Press, 83

  AT&T, 177, 178

  Atwater Kent Hour, 187

  automobile industry

  advertising and, 15–16, 20

  Chevrolet, 17, 18–19

  General Motors, 17, 19–20, 26, 35

  production methods in, 15, 17–18, 19, 20, 26

  sales numbers of, 16, 20

  See also Ford Motor Company

  aviation, 2–5

  Ayer, N. W., 20

  Babbitt (Lewis), 39

  Babe Comes Home (film), 92, 130–31

  Ballet Mécanique (Antheil), 27, 28

  Barnham, Reyner, 23

  Barry, Dave, 120

  Barton, Bruce, 14, 35–40, 42, 48, 95, 197

  baseball, 122, 127–33

  Bauhaus movement, 23

  Beard, Charles, 15, 43–44, 46, 47, 49

  Beard, Mary, 15, 43–44, 46, 49

  Beiderbeck, Bix, 160, 162

  Belasco, David, 103

  Bell, Brian, 118

  Ben-Hur (film), 143

  Big Money, The (Dos Passos), 32

  Big Parade, The (film), 150, 153

  Birns, Nicholas, 41

  birth control, 63, 65

  “Black and Tan Fantasy” (Ellington and Miley), 171

  Blackbirds of 1928, The (Broadway show), 169

  blackface, 73, 137, 156, 183, 184

  “Black Sox scandal,” 127–28

  Bledsoe, Jules, 73

  Blume, Peter, 23

  Book Nobody Knows, The (Barton), 36

  Borzage, Frank, 149

  Boston (Sinclair), 32

  Bow, Clara, 6, 112, 130

  film roles of, 50, 56, 57–60, 69, 72–73, 149, 150

  as “new woman,” 10, 52–53, 55–56, 58, 61, 72–73, 138, 196–97

  private life of, 60–62

  boxing, 113–22

  Brazil, John R., 105, 106, 107

  Bridgers, Ann Preston, 68

  Britton, Elizabeth Ann, 96–98

  Britton, Nan, 96–99, 111, 134

  Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar, 54–55

  Brook, Clive, 60

  Brooklyn Eagle, 182

  Byrd, Richard E., 2

  Capper, Arthur, 95

  Carmichael, Hoagy, 162, 169

  Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 126

  Carpentier, Georges, 117

  cars. See automobile industry

  Carter, Paul, 8

  Caruso, Enrico, 76

  “Case of Sacco and Vanzetti, The” (Frankfurter; article), 30

  Case of Sacco and Vanzetti, The (Frankfurter; book), 30

  Cather, Willa, 14–15, 40–43

  “Caucasian Storms Harlem, The” (Fisher), 168

  CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), 169, 173, 178

  censorship, 142–43, 147, 151

  Chamberlin, Clarence, 2

  Chaplin, Charlie, 139, 146, 149

  Chevrolet, 17, 18–19

  Chicago

  African Americans in, 160, 161, 184

  boxing in, 115–16, 119, 120

  jazz in, 157–58, 169

  radio, 177, 181, 182–83, 184

  Soldier Field in, 116, 124

  Chicago (play), 103, 107, 108

  Chicago Daily News, 184

  Chicago Defender, 161, 184

  Chicago Federation of Labor, 181

  Chicago Tribune, 107–8, 183, 184

  Chicago White Sox, 127–28

  Children of Divorce (film), 56, 59–60, 69

  Christianity, 35–42

  business and, 35–40, 197
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  in film, 143–44

  industrial age and, 14–15

  literature and, 14–15, 40–42

  Churchill, Allen, 7

  Coli, François, 2

  college athletics, 122, 123–27

  Colored Advisory Commission, 10, 80, 81, 88–89

  Columbia Phonograph, 178

  Columbus, Christopher, 48

  Combs, Earl, 128

  Commerce Department, U.S., 86, 94–95, 175–76

  Companionate Marriage, The (film), 61, 62, 63–64, 65–66, 68

  Companionate Marriage, A (play), 65

  constructivism movement, 23

  consumerism, 35–36, 55, 111, 188, 190, 194, 195, 196

  Cook, Will Marion, 165

  Coolidge, Calvin, 8, 38, 79, 84, 95, 96, 112

  Cooper, Gary, 59, 60–61

  Cooper, Jack L., 184

  Coquette (play), 68–69

  Correll, Charles, 137, 182, 183–84

  Cott, Nancy, 58

  Cotton Club, 168–69, 172

  “Creation, The: A Negro Sermon” (Johnson), 165

  “Creed of an Advertising Man” (Barton), 35

  crime

  reporting of, 102–5, 106, 107–9

  women and, 108–9

  See also Sacco-Vanzetti case; Snyder-Gray trial

  criminal justice, 29–30. See also Sacco-Vanzetti case

  Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company (Sheeler), 12, 21–22, 196

  Crusinberry, James, 117

  Cubism, 23

  cultural pluralism, 48

  “Culture and Civilization” (Susman), 8–9

  “Culture Heroes” (Susman), 8–9

  Damrosch, Walter, 187

  Daughters of the Confederacy, 48

  Davidson, Donald, 85

  Davis, Noel, 2

  Dawson, James P., 116

  Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 14–15, 40–43

  De Barthe, Joseph, 98

  DeMille, Cecil B., 143–45, 146, 147–48, 150, 154–55

  Democratic Party, 75, 89

  Dempsey, Jack, 113, 115–22, 133–34, 137

  Demuth, Charles, 23, 24, 189, 190, 197

  De Stijl movement, 23

  detective novels, 106–7

  DeVoto, Bernard, 32

  Dickson, Virgil E., 179

  divorce, 59–60, 61, 63, 65

  Dixon, Mildred, 172

  Dodds, Johnny, 159

  Doomed Ship: The Autobiography of Judd Gray (Gray), 102

  Dorsey, Jimmy, 162

  Dorsey, Tommy, 162

  Dos Passos, John, 32, 150

  Doug and Mary and Others (Talmey), 138