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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Joshua Zeitz
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Paperback, 338 pages; 2007 (2006)
$13.95
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, young women across the country caused consternation and titillation by bobbing their hair, showing their knees, and staying out late to dance the Charleston. In Flapper, author Joshua Zeitz captures that watershed moment in American history with the verve of a Jazz Age couple behind the wheel of a new motorcar. Flapper doesn't stop at chronicling the hemlines and personalities that shocked Victorian sensibilities. From the rebellion against the corset to the gathering clouds of the Great Depression, the book illuminates the economic and even technological origins of flapper styles and mores. And, while Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald do cavort through Zeitz's survey of the glittering twenties, unexpected figures such as Margaret Sanger also have their enlightening cameos. Through a deceptively frivolous subject, Flapper shows us the origins of our national obsessions with youth, beauty, and celebrity.
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