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"A fast-paced portrait of the twentieth-century's fizziest decade, replete with gangsters, flappers, speakeasies and jazz" (
Kirkus Reviews).
The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all-night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue-and it produced a dizzying array of writers, musicians, and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin. In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of the compelling people and events that characterized the decade to produce a gripping portrait of the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just "the years between wars." It was an epoch of passion and changeāan age, she observes, not unlike our own.
"A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and colored in by a historian with a novelist's relish for human foibles." ā The Sunday TimesĀ (London)
"MesmerizingĀ .Ā .Ā . Like the champagne-immersed age she portrays, Moore's book effervesces with the detail of this fascinating story." āJuliet Nicholson,Ā Evening Standard (UK)
"What a decade it was! What goings-on more violent, subversive and exotic than any of the parties, japes or shenanigans of our own Bright Young ThingsĀ .Ā .Ā . Moore has knitted the various diverse strands together impressively with an overview of the large cast of characters, events, attitudes, industries and statistics." āAnne de Courcy,Ā Daily Mail (UK)
"Full of anecdote, detail and color.Ā .Ā .Ā . Fluid and elegant." āMarianne Brace,Ā Independent (UK)
The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all-night parties to the birth of Hollywood and a glamorous gangster-led crime scene flourishing under Prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous events-the political show trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, the huge Ku Klux Klan march down Washington DC's Pennsylvania Avenue-and it produced a dizzying array of writers, musicians, and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin. In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of the compelling people and events that characterized the decade to produce a gripping portrait of the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just "the years between wars." It was an epoch of passion and changeāan age, she observes, not unlike our own.
"A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and colored in by a historian with a novelist's relish for human foibles." ā The Sunday TimesĀ (London)
"MesmerizingĀ .Ā .Ā . Like the champagne-immersed age she portrays, Moore's book effervesces with the detail of this fascinating story." āJuliet Nicholson,Ā Evening Standard (UK)
"What a decade it was! What goings-on more violent, subversive and exotic than any of the parties, japes or shenanigans of our own Bright Young ThingsĀ .Ā .Ā . Moore has knitted the various diverse strands together impressively with an overview of the large cast of characters, events, attitudes, industries and statistics." āAnne de Courcy,Ā Daily Mail (UK)
"Full of anecdote, detail and color.Ā .Ā .Ā . Fluid and elegant." āMarianne Brace,Ā Independent (UK)
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 1 - āYOU CANNOT MAKE YOUR SHIMMY SHAKE ON TEAā
- 2 - āTHE RHYTHM Of LIFEā
- 3 - FEMME FATALE
- 4 - āFIVE AND TEN CENT LUSTS AND DREAMSā
- 5 - āMy God! HOW THE MONEY Rolls INā
- 6 - āTHE BUSINESS Of AMERICA IS BUSINESSā
- 7 - FEAR Of THE FOREIGN
- 8 - THE Ku Klux KLAN REDUX
- 9 - IN EXILE
- 10 - THE NEW YORKER
- 11 - āYES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS TODAYā
- 12 - THE SPIRIT Of ST. LOUIS
- 13 - THE BIG FIGHT
- 14 - CRASH
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Acknowledgements
- INDEX