NEW WORLD COMING The 1920s and the Making of Modern America

Miller succeeds in showing how the ’20s laid the groundwork for the America later to come. This long work offers a lively narrative and the mellifluous voice of Lloyd James. Capturing the text with excellent pace and occasional vocal characterizations, James’s reading is almost flawless. (There are a few mis-pronunciations.) Miller’s text is interesting and broad-ranging, although his interpretations of the times are largely conventional. Politics gets the bulk of the treatment, but popular culture, economic history, and social life are also extensively examined. M.L.C. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/ NOV 04]