Words in Conversation with the Times€€ -- Two Editors, Two Projects, One War: 1914-1918€ -- The Corner Turned: 1919-1920€ -- Finding Their Focus: 1921 -- Power-Brokers, Word-Masters: 1922-1924€ -- The Huxley Years: 1926-1928€ -- Between Wars: 1929-1930
Words in conversation with the times -- Two editors, two projects, one war, 1914-1918 -- The corner turned, 1919-1920 -- Finding their focus, 1921 -- Power-brokers, word-masters, 1922-1925 -- The Huxley Years, 1926-1928 -- Between wars, 1929-1930
Summary
Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society