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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2014.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm |
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Flappers : 6 women of a dangerous generation.
Six women of a dangerous generation. |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
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, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald and Tamara de Lempicka. They would shape the role of women for generations to come. |
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| Note: | Originally published: Great Britain : Macmillan, 2013. |
| Call Number: | HQ1412 .M1633 2014 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374156084 0374156085 |