... significantly hastened the pace of the population. In addition, jazz music was formally introduced and became extensively used in modern entertainment. Coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the phrase, "The Jazz Age," was also used to describe the Roaring Twenties. Famous music by artists, such as Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and Duke Ellington, could be broadcasted on radio stations through improved ... became America's national sport. In the twenties, the advancement of communication and technology improved modern entertainment and culture in the United States. The 1920s was also called the...

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The two decades between World War I and World War II were a golden age of American fiction. Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. He was once credited by T. S. Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted ... world, from over night success to excessive hedonism. So he could vividly depict the mysterious and desirous wealth of Gatsby and unfolded before our eyes a blazing picture of the jazz age. However, what ...

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... 's government were more apt to dealing with such problems, those that went on for so many years may have been stopped sooner. The Roaring Twenties are often thought of as a golden age of the mobster. Prohibition provided unprecedented opportunities to make fortunes by satisfying illegal vices, and crime bosses like Capone and Rothstein led powerful operations across whole regions of the country ... in 1919 and 1933, respectively, provide historical bookends to the prohibition, the mobster era was likewise enclosed within. Despite all the glamour Americans were giving the mobsters of the ...

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... pursuit of happiness. The demand for thousands of consumer goods was inspired by advances in technology and cultural changes. Leiss, Kline, Jhally and Botterill state that "this was advertising's golden age, not merely because advertisers had grasped its almost unlimited transformational capabilities, but because society as a whole almost completely agreed with its key premise, that the road to happiness was paved ... ...

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