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This book is about a culture war that has been going on in the United States for well over a century. This war first became inescapably visible to the average American during what we call the Roaring Twenties: the era of Prohibition, the illegal speakeasy, and the flapper. It was also the era of the movies. Most people’s knowledge of this period of American history comes mainly from television documentaries that rely heavily on extracts from movies of the era, either documentaries or commercial films. A few Americans may have read Frederick Lewis Allen’s 1931 book, Only Yester- day, or some other historical study of the 1920's, but reading books is not the pathway to historical awareness for most Americans. Visual images are. The motion picture is modern man’s most sophisticated aesthetic eye on the world. What it records, people are more likely to remember. They are likely to remember The Passion.