Examines aspects of American life in the 1920s not conforming to the popular image of the Roaring Twenties, studying authors of rural upbringing, peace movements, prohibition, unflappered and unflappable women, and the presidencies of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Both a specialist in American social history and an author of science fiction stories, Paul Allen Carter was professor emeritus in history at the University of Arizona.