Despite winning WWI and showing off its power to the rest of the world, the United States limped into 1920. Exhausted by a year of violence at home, a crippling recession, and runaway inflation, voter turned to the Republicans. And Republicans turned to a man that would symbolize the modest aspirations of the age, Warren G. Harding. Despite not lasting long, he'd set the tone for the rest of the decade. 

Bibliography for this episode: 

1. Miller, Nathan New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America Da Capo Press 2003

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