Ellis, Edward Robb. Echoes of Distant Thunder. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975.
--- life in the United States, 1914 - 1918; an examination of the home front during the Great War

Korn, Jerry. This Fabulous Century: 1910 - 1920. New York: Time Life Books, 1969.
--- worthwhile pictorial survey of the decade; part of a series of books covering the 20th century

Abels, Jules. In the Time of Silent Cal. New York: Putnam, 1969.
--- general interest, "retrospectiive history of the 1920's"

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931.
--- a classic, general interest study wwritten at the beginning of the Depression

Andrist, Robert. The American Heritage History of the 20's and 30's. New York: American Heritage, 1970.
--- heavily illustrated pictorial surveey of the era

Churchill, Allen. The Theatrical Twenties. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
--- an illustrated look at Broadway durring the 1920's; Louise Brooks is referenced and pictured

Cleaton, Irene and Allen. Books & Battles: American Literature, 1920 - 1930. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
--- the literature and censorship battlles of the Jazz Age, from a perspective not so far removed

Cowley, Malcolm and Robert. Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age. New York: Scribners, 1966.
--- designed as a textbook for studentss, nevertheless a recommended anthology of period pieces

Cruden, Robert. Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
--- art, music and letters during the yyears 1919 - 1926

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.
--- a look at cultural life in Manhattaan in the 1920's; Louise Brooks is referenced

Drennen, Robert E.. The Algonquin Wits. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel, 1968.
--- a collection of bon mots, witty wissecracks, epigrams and gags

Dumenil, Lynn and Foner, Eric. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. New York: Hill & Wang, 1995.

Fass, Paula S. The Damned and the Beautiful. New York: Oxford, 1977.
--- a study of youth and their growing importance in American culture during the 1920's

Gains, James R. Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table. New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich, 1977.
--- heavily illustrated look at the wriiters, actors and socialites who embodied the era

Greene, Laurence. The Era of Wonderful Nonsense. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939.
--- a "casebook of the Twenties&quuot; and a perspective not so far removed from its source

Harvey, R. C. Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 1991.
--- volume one of this collection of caartoons from magazines and newspapers

Harvey, R. C. Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties, vol 2. Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books, 1991.
--- volume two of this collection of caartoons from magazines and newspapers

Higashi, Sumiko. Virgins, Vamps and Flappers. St. Albans, Vermont: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1978.
--- critical study of the American sileent movie heroine; Louise Brooks is discussed

Hodapp, William. The Pleasures of the Jazz Age. New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1948.
--- fine anthology of writings - literaature and journalism - of the era

Hoffman, Frederick J. The Twenties. New York: Collier, 1962.
--- critical study of the literature off the decade

Hutchens, John K. The American Twenties: A Literary Panorama. New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1952.
--- anthology of literature from the 19920's

Latham, Angela J. Posing a Threat. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan Unversity Press, 2000.
--- a look at "flappers, chorus giirls and other brazen performers of the American 1920's"

Leinwand, Gerald. 1927: High Tide of the 1920s. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001.

Leighton, Isabel. The Aspirin Age 1919 - 1941. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949.
--- anthology of writings on the interwwar period by the likes of Wallace Stegner, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, Irving Stone, etc . . . .

Korn, Jerry. This Fabulous Century: 1920 - 1930. New York: Time Life Books, 1969.
--- worthwhile pictorial survey of the decade; part of a series of books covering the 20th century

Miller, Bettina. From Flappers to Flivvers . . .. Greendale, Wisconsin: Reminisce Books, 1995.
--- a collection of hundreds of personaal memories and photos from the time

Mordden, Ethan. That Jazz! An Idiosyncratic Social History of the American Twenties. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.

Perrett, Geoffrey. America in the Twenties. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

Reynolds, Francis J. Marvels of 1924. New York: International Magazine Company, 1925.
--- contemporary perspective on one yeaar in the 1920's

Robbins, Daniel. The Jazz Age. Providence, Rhode Island: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1968.
--- exhibit catalog; the Jazz Age as seeen through the eyes of Ralph Barton, Miguel Corvarrubias and John Held, Jr.

Rogers, Agnes and Allen, Frederick Lewis. I Remember Distinctly. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.
--- a pictorial survey; a "family album of the American people in the years of peace: 1918 to Pearl Harbor"

Sann, Paul. The Lawless Decade. New York: Bonanza Books, 1957.
--- pictorial survey of the time

Shannon, David A. Between the War: America 1919 - 1941. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
--- useful, interesting textbook

Sklar, Robert. The Plastic Age: 1917 - 1930. New York: George Braziller, 1970.
--- anthology of text and images from tthe era; Louise Brooks is mentioned

Stern, Robert, Gilmartin, Gregory, and Mellins, Thomas. New York 1930. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
--- architecture and urbanism between tthe two World Wars; relevant is the material (images, text) on the theaters, apartments, shops, restuarants, etc.... of the city

Stevenson, Elizabeth. Babbits & Bohemians: The American 1920's. New York: Macmillian, 1967.

Stokes, Horace Winston. Mirrors of the Year. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1928.
--- "a national revue of the outsttanding figures, trends and events of 1927 - 1928"

Studlar, Gaylyn. This Mad Masquerade. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
--- academic study of stardom and mascuulinity in the Jazz Age

Sullivan, Mark. The Twenties. New York: Scribners, 1935.
--- compilation of newspaper and magaziine clippings; volume six of this multi-volume history of the United States

Walker, Stanley. The Night Club Era. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933.
--- an account of the people and placess that defined New York's night life during the Jazz Age

Watson, Steve. The Harlem Renaissance. New York: Pantheon, 1995.
--- superb study of the "hub of Affrican-American Culture, 1920 - 1930"