ix, 351 pages ; 22 cm

"Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index

Public and private power -- Work and consumption -- The new woman -- The acids of modernity: secular and sacred interpretations -- Conformity and community -- Pluralism and community

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