<![CDATA[Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern]]>

false <![CDATA[Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172266913m/157593.jpg 157593 3 Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the era to exhilarating life. This is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. The men and women who made the flapper were a diverse lot. There was Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form and silhouette, helping to free women from the torturous corsets and crinolines that had served as tools of social control. Three thousand miles away, Lois Long, the daughter of a Connecticut clergyman, christened herself “Lipstick” and gave New Yorker readers a thrilling entrée into Manhattan’s extravagant Jazz Age nightlife. In California, where orange groves gave way to studio lots and fairytale mansions, three of America’s first celebrities—Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks, Hollywood’s great flapper triumvirate—fired the imaginations of millions of filmgoers. Dallas-born fashion artist Gordon Conway and Utah-born cartoonist John Held crafted magazine covers that captured the electricity of the social revolution sweeping the United States. Bruce Barton and Edward Bernays, pioneers of advertising and public relations, taught big business how to harness the dreams and anxieties of a newly industrial America—and a nation of consumers was born. Towering above all were Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era that would come to an abrupt end on Black Tuesday, when the stock market collapsed and rendered the age of abundance and frivolity instantly obsolete. With its heady cocktail of storytelling and big ideas, Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who launched the first truly modern decade. From the Hardcover edition. 152079 2006 Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern total:264|5:46|4:123|3:78|2:16|1:1| 264 989 585 66 3 8 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 11 07:56:14 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 01 16:16:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Mar 30 15:22:09 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 15:22:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 09:46:57 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 07:07:34 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Mar 31 19:37:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 13:10:55 -0700 2008
I've always had a huge crush on the Jazz Age anyway, from Dorothy Parker to F. Scott Fitgerald and all the shenanigans and acerbic wit (would that I could ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Dec 11 04:47:28 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 04:47:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:47:43 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 16:30:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 27 16:03:31 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 16:07:02 -0800 2009 Anyway, I loved this focused insight to the world of women in the 20s, when a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 21:47:44 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 17:28:17 -0700 2009
Its interesting to think of the 1920's and the para...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 15:01:15 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 11:49:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:26:56 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 14:34:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 28 09:51:19 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 09:56:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 20:22:07 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 20:26:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 09 19:42:24 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 19:43:59 -0800 2009
What led to modern dating? Electricity.

Argh.

Easy read, very accessible even if you aren't "into" history and a good look at ...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 27 11:13:45 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 04:38:02 -0800 2007 bad thing that i am halfway through this novel and have absolutely no desire to finish it. naturally, i will, because i have a bit of a neurosis about unfinished books after the halfway mark, but jesus christ talk about a tedious read.

apparently joshua zeitz has the un...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 20:46:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 20:48:40 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 13:49:37 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 00:36:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Sep 08 13:38:58 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 09 05:31:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 20 08:45:50 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 20 08:56:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 07:51:16 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 11:09:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 31 13:36:22 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 13:37:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=157593