During the Roaring Twenties, New York City grew to become the world’s largest city, and the center of American industry, finance, art, and culture.
This period saw the establishment of two new, influential magazines, Time and The New Yorker, and the wisecracking circle of writers at The Algonquin Roundtable influenced a generation.
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While I recognize that this could perhaps become tiresome, I don’t see how to talk about this period without detailing how influential American culture became. The US motion picture industry virtually defined the art of film, the Broadway stage shows were imitated everywhere, and American culture achieved a level of influence it had never had before. Also, the influence of US business and the US economy was enormous. And when the US stock market crashed in 1929, the whole world felt the tremors. But we will also talk about Paris fashion, the Long March, and Mahatma Gandhi. I promise!