Them and Us: The American Invasion of British High Society

Them and Us: The American Invasion of British High Society
ISBN-10
0750943564
ISBN-13
9780750943567
Series
Them and Us
Category
Americans
Pages
307
Language
English
Published
2007
Author
Charles Jennings

Description

Between 1880 and 1939 the two great forces of the western world collided. Them and Us is the story of that social upheaval. It is a tale of how the United States sold its heiresses into ennobled slavery at the turn of the century, found the tables turned around the time of the First World War, and ended up subjugating smart society to the "Almighty Dollar" in the 1930s. It is about prejudice, fear, bitchiness, arrivistes, fine architecture, low life, ostentation and sheer incomprehension. It is about the Old World's dread of the power of New America and the New World's longing for the historical status of the Old. - Jacket flap.

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