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This 3 page paper focuses on a review of William Leuctenberg's 'Perils of Prosperity,' a book that examines the politics and culture of the United States from the First World War to the start of the Great Depression. No sources are cited.
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both internally and externally. Things came to a head when the Germans bombed the Lusitania, signaling the entrance of the United States into World War I.
William Leuchtenbergs book, The Perils of Prosperity details Americas history between its entry into World War I and ending with the Great Depression. This book pretty
much has everything in it - scandals (such as the Teapot Dome Scandal), economic prosperity and loss and the general attitude of the everyday American citizen at this time.
At the time of World War I, the United States was mainly an isolationist nation, supporting itself through an agrarian economy. Despite the
fact the Industrial Revolution had hit Great Britain, the United States continued to be behind the times in terms of development of mass consumption and factories, instead still receiving a
good chunk of its GNP through agriculture and farming. Leuchtenberg takes the reader step-by-step through the war (which forced America to grow
up fairly quickly in terms of having to change its economy around from a peacetime one to a wartime one), and the subsequent rise in prosperity and increasing consumer demands
for goods, and describes how the country moved into a liberalized, powerful company that became involved in foreign affairs and the new world order (although the U.S. declined joining the
League of Nations, the country still became a powerhouse on the world stage, and Leuchtenberg describes how this happened in strong and interesting detail).
He also touches on the "moral decay" internally, as U.S. citizens became obsessed with having more and getting more. Despite Prohibition, people snuck around to speakeasies to do
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