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New York (5): Cosmopolis

S12E5 Nov 18, 1999 Runtime TBD

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"Cosmopolis: 1914-1931" recalls the WWI years and the "Roaring '20s" in the city that F. Scott Fitzgerald called "the land of ambition and success." Of course, an egg was laid on Wall Street in 1929, but before that happened the city gave rise, narrator David Ogden Stiers says, "to a new culture, a mass culture" that was broadcast live on radio networks headquartered in New York.

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Episode details

Episode: S12E5

Aired: Nov 18, 1999

Runtime: Runtime TBD

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