Flappers : six women of a dangerous generation / Judith Mackrell.

Explores the ethos of a restless generation, starting with its first fashionable acts of rebellion before World War I and continuing to the Wall Street crash of 1929, discovering what exemplified the range and daring of the flapper spirit. The women who defined this age were Josephine Baker, Tallula...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mackrell, Judith
Language:English
Published: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Baker, Josephine, > 1906-1975.
Bankhead, Tallulah, > 1902-1968.
Cooper, Diana, > 1892-1986.
Cunard, Nancy, > 1896-1965.
Fitzgerald, Zelda, > 1900-1948.
Lempicka, Tamara de, > 1898-1980.
Women > United States > Nineteen twenties > Biography.
Celebrities > United States > Nineteen twenties > Biography.
Artists > United States > Nineteen twenties > Biography.
Women > United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex role > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Nineteen twenties > United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
HISTORY / Social History.
NonFiction.
Arts.
Sociological.
Genre:
Biography.
NonFiction.
Arts.
Sociological.
Physical Description:xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Flappers : 6 women of a dangerous generation.
Six women of a dangerous generation.
Format: Book

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