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If the American people turned a deaf ear to Woodrow Wilson's plea for the League of Nations during the early years of the Post-war decade, it was not simply because they were too weary of foreign entanglements and noble efforts to heed him. They were listening to something else. They were listening to ugly rumours of a huge radical conspiracy against the government and institutions of the United States. They had their ears cocked for the detonation of bombs and the tramp of Bolshevist armies. They seriously thought - or at least millions of them did, millions of otherwise reasonable citizens - that a Red revolution might begin in the United States the next month or next week, and they were less concerned with making the world safe for democracy than with making America safe for themselves.
Those were the days when column after column of the front pages of the newspapers shouted the news of strikes and anti-Bolshevist riots; when radicals shot down Armistice Day paraders in the streets of Centralia, Washington, and in revenge the patriotic citizenry took out of jail a member of the Indus
Frederick Lewis Allen
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Allen, Frederick Lewis
Frederick Lewis Allen (July 5, –February 13, ) was a writer, magazine editor, and popular historian. The son of an Episcopalian minister, Allen was descended from a line of estimable New Englanders that went back to the Mayflower. He received a superb education at Groton School and then at Harvard University, where he helped edit the literary magazine, and earned a B.A. in English in and an M.A. in modern languages in In , he was hired by the prestigious Atlantic Monthly. After working for the Council on National Defense from to and a stint as Harvard's publicity manager from to , Allen was hired as an editor for Harper's Magazine and spent the rest of his career there, becoming Harper's editor-in-chief in A skillful and sensitive editor, Allen attracted distinguished contributors to Harper's and solidified the magazine's reputation for intelligence and literary brilliance. He stole evenings and weekends from his editorial duties, however, to write the books that were to make him famous.
In , Allen published his best-known work, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties. It was a remarkable survey of American popular cultu
Frederick Lewis Allen
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Frederick Lewis Allen (July 5, – February 13, ) was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about recent and popular history.
Allen was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Groton, graduated from Harvard University in and received his Master's in He taught at Harvard briefly thereafter before becoming assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly in , and then managing editor of The Century in He began working for Harper's in , becoming editor-in-chief in , a position he held until shortly before his death, aged 63, in New York City. His wife, Dorothy Penrose Allen, died just prior to the publication of his best-known book, Only Yesterday.
Allen's popularity coincided with increased interest in history among the book-buying public of the s and s. This interest was met, not by the university-employed historian, but by an amateur historian writing in his free time. Aside from Allen, these historians included Carl Sandburg, Bernard DeVoto, Do
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