Friday, April 16, 2010

Anything Goes / Lucy Moore

Anything Goes: a biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore. 352 pp.

A popular history of America in the 1920s, with chapters covering Prohibition, jazz, flappers, the movie industry, Harding's administration and its corruption, the Sacco/Vanzetti case, business, the KKK, ex-pats, the Scopes trial, Charles Lindbergh, Jack Dempsey and the Crash of 1929. The book has an easy style and an extensive bibliography, but I was disappointed that the endnotes are so general; even when the author is quoting something, there's no way to tell what she's quoting from. On the other hand it contains an excellent picture of a man dressed up as the Chrysler Building.

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