Download or read book A Very Different Age written by Steven J. Diner and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early twentieth century was a time of technological revolution in the United States. New inventions and corporations were transforming the economic landscape, bringing a stunning array of consumer goods, millions of additional jobs, and ever more wealth. Steven J. Diner draws on the rich scholarship of recent social history to show how these changes affected Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life, and in doing so offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial epoch in our history.