It’s interesting how our current situation has evolved. The US from 1900 through 1940 was a Progressive’s dream! If none of that garbage happened, we would be in a completely different country right now; I daresay a country as the Framers intended!
I’ve had a lot of exposure to pre-1900 American literature and history, but it was in college and under the Liberal microscope. I’m interested in reading everything under the Conservative contextual lens. Yes, I’m a bookie. Always preferred reading to TV, so it’s appropriate that I’m studying our history so ardently now.
Would you include the National Park systems, women’s suffrage, the rise of the auto and the suburbs, and workplace issues such as hours and safety as “that garbage”?
They’re all part and parcel of the US during that period. You’d have to dump them too, if you want to roll back the clock.