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Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
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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.
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Lucy Moore was born in 1970 and read history at Edinburgh University. She is the author and editor of many books including the critically acclaimed 'Maharanis' which has been reprinted six times, was an Evening Standard best-seller, and the top selling non-fiction title in WHSmith on paperback publication. Lucy was voted one of the 'top twenty young writers in Britain' by the Independent on Sunday and in The New Statesman's "Best of Young British" issue.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprisingly fun book about lots and lots and lots of different events that shaped and created the 1920s. The first few chapters are brisk and quickly passed over with various subjects, which are a bit of a deterrent to the rest of the book. Once the reader digs deeper into the chapters, Moore actually brings out some good info and it makes for a well rounded, overview type book of a wild decade.