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Rebirth and renewal
Call #: 809 REB edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
Series: Bloom’s literary themes
Published 2009

Gatsby
Call #: 813.5 GAT edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Series: Major literary characters
Published 1991

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Call #: 813.52 FSC edited, and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Series: Modern critical interpretations
Published 1986

The great Gatsby : the limits of wonder
Call #: 813.52 LEH Lehan, Richard Daniel, 1930-
Series: Twayne’s masterwork studies ; no 36
Published 1990

The great Gatsby
Call #: F FIT Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Published 1995

The Great Gatsby
Call #: F FIT Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Published 1996

Prohibition : thirteen years that changed America
Call #: 363.4 BEH Behr, Edward, 1926-
Published 1996

Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition
Call #: 363.4 BLU Blumenthal, Karen.
Published 2011

The 1920s decade in photos : the Roaring Twenties
Call #: 973.91 COR Corrigan, Jim.
Published 2010

The Harlem Renaissance
Call #: 700.89 CHA Chambers, Veronica.
Published 1998

Understanding inequality : the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, and gender
Call #: 305 UND edited by Barbara A. Arrighi.
Published 2007

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Prohibition

  • 18th Amendment
  • Volstead Act
  • Temperance
  • Dry Amendment
  • Great Experiment
  • Ant-Saloon League

Organized Crime

  • rumrunner
  • speakeasy/speakeasies
  • bootlegging
  • prostitution
  • Al Capone
  • racketeering
  • the mob
  • gangsters

General Terms

  • Jazz age
  • Roaring Twenties

Industrialism

  • industrial reform
  • middle class
  • Gilded Age
  • Progressive Era
  • industrial revolution
  • industrialists

Prejudice

  • discrimination
  • race relations
  • equality
  • racism
  • bias
  • segregation
  • stereotypes

Gender Roles

  • sex roles
  • sex discrimination
  • equality
  • sexism
  • feminism
  • masculinity

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