The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever. 19.
America had become an urban nation: Automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy.
Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertising, and results broadcast on radio.
Women won the vote.
With voters choosing between Wilson\'s League of Nations and Harding\'s front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America.
Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House.
The presidential election of 1920 was among history\'s most dramatic. 1920 paints a vivid portrait of America, beset by the Red Scare, jailed dissidents, Prohibition, smoke-filled rooms, bomb-throwing terrorists, and the Klan, gingerly crossing modernity\'s threshold.
America had become an urban nation: Automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit transformed the economy.
Republicans outspent Democrats by 4 to 1, as voters witnessed the first extensive newsreel coverage, modern campaign advertising, and results broadcast on radio.
Women won the vote.
With voters choosing between Wilson\'s League of Nations and Harding\'s front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America.
Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House.
The presidential election of 1920 was among history\'s most dramatic.
Award-winning historian David Pietrusza\'s riveting new work presents a dazzling panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots, and counterplots -- a picture of modern America at the crossroads.
Meanwhile, the 1920 census showed that America had become an urban nation -- automobiles, mass production, chain stores, and easy credit were transforming the economy and America was limbering up for the most spectacular decade of its history, the roaring \'20s.
It was also the first election in which women could vote.
It was an election that saw unprecedented levels of publicity -- the Republicans outspent the Democrats by 4 to 1 -- and it was the first to garner extensive newspaper and newsreel coverage.
Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Theodore Roosevelt.
For the only time in the nation\'s history, six once-and-future Presidents hoped to end up in the White House: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G.
The presidential election of 1920 was one of the most dramatic ever
