Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-257) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Order, planning, and reason -- The end of times : defining modernity in the 1930s -- A new model army : the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and modernity -- Salvation awaits : expositions, world's fairs, and modernity -- A woman's place/a family's hearth : interior decorators and modernity -- Sounds for the Modern Age : music as celebration of modernity -- Epilogue. New directions and challenges : the postwar divide.
