Excerpt from Carl Van Vechten and the TwentiesCarl Van Vechtena cathartic but proved to be a conundrum. The conclusion of the era found the nation just as militant against normalcy and big business, symbolized by Herbert Hoover's continuation of the Republican regime, as it had been against Wilsonian idealism ten years before. By the time the Greek tragedy of Hoover's gallant stand had run its course in 1932, the nation brought the merry-go-round of the Twenties to a full circle by returning the reins to the Democrats and Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a New Deal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.