In which decade was the novel The Great Gasby set?
The Great Gatsby a contender for the title "Great American Novel." In 1998, the Modern Library editorial board voted it the 20th century's best American novel and second best English-language novel of the same time period. Set on the prosperous Long Island of 1922, "The Great Gatsby" provides a critical social history of America during the Roaring Twenties within its fictional narrative. That era, known for widespread economic prosperity, the development of jazz music, flapper culture, new technologies in communication (motion pictures, broadcast radio, recorded music) forging a genuine mass culture, and bootlegging, along with other criminal activity, is plausibly depicted in Fitzgerald's
The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening The "Me" Decade and the Third Great Awakening "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the decade of the 1970s. The essay was first published as the cover story in the August 23, 1976 issue of "New York" magazine and later appeared in his collection "Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine". In one of the essay's most famous passages, exemplifying his style of description, Wolfe called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern-pounding Amen ten-finger