I. The critics and defenders of America in the 1920's: the intellectuals speak for themselves
F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise
Sinclair Lewis: Main Street
John Dos Passos: Manhattan Transfer
Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard: The Quest for Normalcy
Irving Babbitt: Democracy and Standards
John Dewey: The Crisis in Culture
Walter Lippmann: Calvin Coolidge: Puritanism DeLuxe
H.L. Mencken: The Democratic Citizen
Mary Austin: Artist Life in the United States
Theodore Dreiser: America and the Artist
Sherwood Anderson: Living in America
Zona Gale: The United States and the Artist
II. Literary critics of later generations view the 1920's
John W. Aldridge: After the Lost Generation
Van Wyck Brooks: On Literature Today
Bernard De Voto: Waste Land
Malcolm Cowley: Exile's Return
Frederick J. Hoffman: Some Perspectives on the 1920's
III. A final evaluation of the decade's intellectual discontent
Henry Steele Commager: The Literature of Revolt
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: The Revolt of the Intellectuals
Granville Hicks: Trumpet Call.
