Bibliograph

Anything goes, a biography of the roaring twenties, Lucy Moore

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Anything goes, a biography of the roaring twenties, Lucy Moore

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Anything goes

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lucy Moore

Sub title

a biography of the roaring twenties

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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