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generously benevolent values of its founders. The government was pure and well-respected by its people. Citizens believed in their countries, their families, their lives--and in the freedoms that
they were promised. America was termed the "land of opportunity" and those who could do so would pursue such opportunity without hesitation. But somewhere along the line those
dreams of innocent prosperity turned bitterly sour. At some point, America was transformed for the worse and thrust violently into the cold, modern world-- the young, pure and innocent
nation fell victim to corruption, socio-political turmoil and a drastic change of its own values. When apple pie became illegal whiskey and all-American baseball turned into a came corrupted
by gamblers-- the country became a nation--one that had lost its innocence. Eliot Asinof illustrates the aforementioned idea throughout an entire book by pinpointing four specific
events as the causal factors of our countrys loss of innocence; (1) Americas reluctant refusal to concur with Woodrow Wilsons "vision" and join the "League of Nations," (2) the commencement
of post- World War Is "Red Scare", (3) the beginning of prohibition, and (4) the "fixing" of a World Series baseball game by crooked gamblers. As the title "1919
: Americas Loss of Innocence" suggests so precisely-- all of these events transpired during that one fateful year..and it was in that 52-week period on the brink of what would
be called "the roaring twenties," that America lost its longheld innocence. As Tannebaum (1990) explains, one must first understand the condition of early twentieth century
America in order to genuinely appreciate the validity of Asinofs points. We were a nation slowly involving into a major world power; abruptly left alone at the conclusion of
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