Anything Goes A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
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- 9781843547785
- 01 september 2009
- 400 pagina's
Lucy Moore
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'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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