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.
| ISBN: | 9781843547785 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2009 |
| Author: | Lucy Moore |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Genres: |
History European history General and world history History of the Americas Popular music Popular culture |