Other popular entertainers are highlighted, including Enrico Caruso, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Will Rogers, and Greta Garbo.

To counter the increasing amount of sex and violence in films, movie producers hire Will Hays, who by the end of the decade developed the Motion Picture Production Code.

Sports events which are covered include the rise of prominence of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees; the success of Bobby Jones; Man o' War's success on the race track; football's Red Grange and Knute Rockne are the stars of their sport; Bill Tilden, Molla Mallory, Suzanne Lenglen, and Helen Wills dominated the tennis world.

Johnny Weissmuller garnered the moniker of "fastest swimmer in the world", while Gertrude Ederle set a record for swimming the English Channel.

While the music scene included the popularity of Lawrence Tibbett, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Grace Moore, Marion Talley, George Gershwin, and Irving Berlin.

The Hall–Mills murder case captivated the nation's attention, as did the tragic death of Floyd Collins, who became trapped while exploring a cave system, and died after 18 days.

Herbert Hoover follows Coolidge as president, and the prosperity of the nation is shattered by the stock market crash of 1929, which begins the Great Depression.