re across most so-called watersheds (Nash, 1970, pp. 23).
To put it another way, the so-called lost generation was not as lost as it claimed. Nash rejects the argument that the war caused the revolt of intellectuals, saying that "there was disillusion with the war, but it was with the war--not necessarily or even logically with the whole of American thought, culture, and tradition" (Nash, 1970, p. 40). That is, the great mass of people may have believed that the culture was in revolt when in fact it remained very much in the traditional moral and social mainstream; values that had been traditionally shared, therefore, remained shared by the culture. This argues that being involved in or engaged by the fads of social change was largely a matter of individual choice, not social mandate.
In the realm of politics and economics, the 1920s can be seen as something of a watershed for later periods. The economic environment of the decade was dominated by a postwar economic boom. The disillusionment of World War I has been cited, and a side effect was tha
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