The Age of Great Change Author: Frederick Lewis Allen Publisher: Jiangsu People's Publishing House

Frederick Allen was one of the pioneers of social history writing. Through vivid descriptions of news, fashions, and customs, he charted and explained some of the changes that had transformed the pace and form of American life during a half-century.

The Great Change is the author's most ambitious book yet, defining a transformative moment in American history. The author celebrates a new economic system that delivered benefits to the American people and offers an implicit, illuminating perspective on what happened in the second half of the twentieth century.

The book is divided into three main parts. The first part depicts the intervention of the rich in national politics under the "old order", the federal government is largely subordinate to business interests, and the gap between the rich and the poor has widened; the second part, "The Dynamics of Change", describes the various forces that have gradually changed the country's traditions since the 20th century: mass production, the Great Depression and the big government model, World War II, and the rise of the United States as a world power. Against this background, the author shows how the economic system can be reformed without being destroyed; the concluding part, "The New America", is a hopeful assessment of postwar American culture, and Allen analyzes many universal and critical issues.