Anything Goes

Resumen del libro

This is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing.

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 was seductive: 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 glittering array of writers, musicians and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin.

In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore has interwoven the stories of the most compelling people and events that characterized the decade to produce a gripping, intimate portrait of the jazz age. She reveals that the roaring twenties were far more than just the years between wars'. This was an epoch of passion and change an age, she observes, that was not unlike our own.