American History: A Survey. since 1865
- ISBN-10
- 039431865X
- ISBN-13
- 9780394318653
- Series
- American History
- Category
- United States
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Authors
- Richard Nelson Current, Frank Burt Freidel, Thomas Harry Williams
Description
The Negro Born in Missouri in 1902 , Langston Hughes. T. S. Eliot on Expatriates of the Twenties embraced Fascism . At home , Edna St. Vincent Millay typified the twenties with her hedonistic love poetry , while Robinson Jeffers ...
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