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The Roaring Twenties

S1 · E4 · 22 Jan 2006

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The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. Women got the right to vote, cut their hair and their skirts; alcohol was outlawed; Babe Ruth was king of the ballpark while Charles Lindbergh ruled the air. The nation's wealth doubled and many American's bought into a new "mass culture." The Roaring Twenties was a decade of startling contrasts in America.