Were 1920's America an era of social and cultural rebellion or was it the result of mere exaggeration of the press?

The 1920's: Era of Social and Cultural Rebellion? Americans have never been shy about attaching labels to their history, and frequently they do so to characterize particular years or decades in their distant or recent past. It is doubtful, however, that any period in our nation's history has received as many catchy appellations as has the decade of the 1920's... "the Jazz Age," "the Roaring Twenties," "the dry decade," "the prosperity decade," "the age of …

…the rest of the world. The "in" was booze, jazz, the Charleston, and the flapper while the passé was the prohibition law, classical music, the waltz, and the dominant man. The 1920's was truly a revolution of a new America and its ideals, that would be interrupted by the Great Depression and World War II, but would pick up in the 1960's where America would face more challenges but with a matured point of view.