• The roots of change
• New roles for women
• Here She Comes…Miss America
• A new kind of family
• The younger generation
• Fundamentalists react to change
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In a book written just a few years after the end of the 1920s titled Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, Frederick Lewis Allen noted that this decade had involved a "revolution in manners and morals." Indeed, many changes in ways of thinking and behaving, most of them actually rooted in the years leading up to the 1920s, were unleashed by this decade's special circumstances and atmosphere.

These changes were influenced by such factors...