Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

Author:   Lucy Moore
Publisher:   Overlook Books
ISBN:  

9781590204399


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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An exhilarating portrait of the era of jazz, glamour, and gangsters from a bright young star of mainstream history writing. 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 change-an age, she observes, not unlike our own.

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Author:   Lucy Moore
Publisher:   Overlook Books
Imprint:   Overlook Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.263kg
ISBN:  

9781590204399


ISBN 10:   1590204395
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Praise for Anything Goes : <br> A gorgeous historical indulgence. -- InStyle <br> Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past. -- Publishers Weekly <br> Lucy Moore s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background. -- ForeWord Reviews <br> 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. -- The Sunday Times (London)


Praise for Anything Goes <br> ?A gorgeous historical indulgence.? -- InStyle <br> ?Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.? -- Publishers Weekly <br> ?Lucy Moore's enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects?from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval? Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.? -- ForeWord Reviews <br> ?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.? -- The Sunday Times (London)n anoth


Praise for Anything Goes <br> ?A gorgeous historical indulgence.? -- InStyle <br> ?Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.? -- Publishers Weekly <br> ?Lucy Moore's enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects?from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval? Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.? -- ForeWord Reviews <br> ?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.? -- The Sunday Times (London)t and r


Praise for Anything Goes <br> ?A gorgeous historical indulgence.? -- InStyle <br> ?Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.? -- Publishers Weekly <br> ?Lucy Moore's enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects?from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval? Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.? -- ForeWord Reviews <br> ?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.? -- The Sunday Times (London)aise fo


Praise for Anything Goes <br> ?A gorgeous historical indulgence.? -- InStyle <br> ?Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high- speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.? -- Publishers Weekly <br> ?Lucy Moore's enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects?from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval? Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.? -- ForeWord Reviews <br> ?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.? -- The Sunday Times (London)e is ar


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