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Anything Goes A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

Name: Anything Goes
Author: Lucy Moore

Auteur: Lucy Moore

Taal: Engels

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Engels
Paperback
9781843547785
01 september 2009
400 pagina's

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Lucy Moore

Lucy Moore was born in London, raised in Massachusetts, and educated at Edinburgh University. She writes for a wide variety of British magazines and newspapers, as well as The Washington Times. She is the author of two previous books of British history, including Con Men and Cutpurses (Penguin).

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Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. This title presents a portrait of the era of invention and glamour.

'Absolutely fizzing... I could not put it down... Moore has the most wonderful eye for detail and a brilliant sense of human character. The most entertaining work of history you are likely to read in a long while.' A. N. Wilson

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and was seductive: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous world of gangsters flourishing under prohibition. But the period was also punctuated by momentous historical 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 glittering array of writers, musicians and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin.

'A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelist's relish for human foibles.' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times

'The great strength of this delightful canter through the history of America in the 1920s [is] the author's zestful way with a story.' Sunday Times 'Book of the Year'

'Like the champagne-immersed age she portrays, Moore's book effervesces with the detail of this fascinating story.' Juliet Nicolson, Evening Standard

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, 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 splendid array of writers, musicians and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 2009
Aantal pagina's: 400
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Lucy Moore
Tweede Auteur: Lucy Moore
Hoofduitgeverij: Atlantic Books

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Editie: Main
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 30 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 198 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 385 g

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EAN: 9781843547785

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Categorieën: Geschiedenis

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Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Land: Verenigde Staten
Periode: 20e eeuw

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