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Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War

his failure to secure the peace. Domestically, Miller discusses the post-war economic woes and the subsequent conflicts between labor and capital, the race riots of the Red Summer, and the Red Scare. In the wake of this turmoil, the nation turned to the normalcy of Warren G. Harding and the Republican Party in 1920. For the most part, Miller follows familiar interpretations of Harding. He relies on historian Robert K. Murray, who wrote perhaps the best scholarly treatment of Harding, to carefully separate fact from fiction. Similarly, Miller gives a balanced treatment to Calvin Coolidge. New World Coming also reflects revisionist scholarship on Herbert Hoover’s place in history, fully acknowledging Hoover’s progressivism. Although he dedicates a substantial part of the book to politics, Miller incorporates social and cultural change as well. He discusses flappers and the sexual revolution, the rise of the motion picture industry and Hollywood, jazz,, and literature’s lost generation. Miller is more inconsistent in drawing parallels to the modern age; he seemingly defines modernity as a comparison to contemporary events. New World Coming is an engaging and well-written synthesis of the 1920s. Although Miller is not an academic he does make good use of scholarship and in doing so provides a needed account of an important decade in America.