1927 High Tide of the 1920s Author:Gerald Leinwand A roaring stock market, a media obsessed with sex and scandal, a time when the U.S. was the world's economic and military leader, when new technologies were rocking society, when nothing could go wrong for America - these sound like recent headlines, but, as Gerald Leinwand's 1927 shows, they also describe the volatile era before the stock marke... more »t crash and Great Depression. The book contrasts the world of superstars like Charles Lindbergh, Duke Ellington, Babe Ruth, Al Capone, and Mae West with a growing underclass left out of the economic boom. Flappers, bootlegging, union organizing and busting, schoolyard killings - including the largest in U.S. history (bigger than the Columbine massacre) - and Wall Street greed are just some of the themes of this surprisingly timely book.« less