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In the 1920s and 1930s, biographical writers sought to capitalize on Strachey's popularity by imitating his style. This new school featured iconoclasts, scientific analysts, and fictional biographers and included Gamaliel Bradford, André Maurois, and Emil Ludwig, among others.
During the 1930s Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Molière, Sand, Goethe, Coleridge, Nietzsche, Poe, Rousseau, Caesar, Lincoln, Napoleon, Darwin, and Alexander the Great were the subjects of psychobiographies, and soon afterward in 1943 a psychobiography of Adolf Hitler, predicting his suicide, was written during World War II, but was not published until 1972.
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An important revisionist history of literature of the Depression era by the author of Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography ; Explores the diversity of literature produced, including Faulkner, O'Neill, Dos Passos, Hughes and Buck ; Includes a number of illustrations and a timeline of important events of the 1930s
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P. 1930s in American politics (11 C) Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (7 C, 69 P) Presidency of Herbert Hoover (2 C, 28 P) Progressive Era in the United States (11 C, 288 P) Prohibition in the United States (8 C, 117 P) Public Works Administration (4 C, 5 P) 1930s in Puerto Rico (13 C)
1930s. The 1930s was a decade in the Anno Domini and Common Era in the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 1930 and ended on December 31, 1939. It is distinct from the decade known as the '''194st decade''' which began on January 1, 1931 and ended on December 31, 1940.
The Twenties. The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-altering invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving assembly line, the emergence of a consumer culture, and the culmination of forces let loose by these entities in Los Angeles are all explored by Professor Miller. View Transcript.
Even though many have described the 1930s as a time when life stood still, the way Americans lived did change. Some of the biggest changes came from the massive construction projects during the decade.
