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Flapper

2009-02-04 History
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Release : 2009-02-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flapper by : Joshua Zeitz

Download or read book Flapper written by Joshua Zeitz. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted. Flapper is an inside look at the 1920s. With tales of Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form; Lois Long, the woman who christened herself “Lipstick” and gave New Yorker readers a thrilling entrée into Manhattan’s extravagant Jazz Age nightlife; three of America’s first celebrities: Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks; Dallas-born fashion artist Gordon Conway; Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era; and more, this is the story of America’s first sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, its first celebrities, and its most sparkling advertisement for the right to pursue happiness. Whisking us from the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre first caught the eye of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, where would-be flappers begged their mothers for silk stockings, to the Manhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historian Joshua Zeitz brings the 1920s to exhilarating life.

Flappers

2013-05-23 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2013-05-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flappers by : Judith Mackrell

Download or read book Flappers written by Judith Mackrell. This book was released on 2013-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives. In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.

Lost Girls

2017-09-15 History
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Release : 2017-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 738/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost Girls by : Linda Simon

Download or read book Lost Girls written by Linda Simon. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book argues, she didn’t appear out of nowhere. This spirited, beautifully illustrated history presents a fresh look at the reality of young women’s experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s, when the “modern” girl emerged. Linda Simon shows us how this modern girl bravely created a culture, a look, and a future of her own. Lost Girls is an illuminating history of the iconic flapper as she evolved from a problem to a temptation, and finally, in the 1920s and beyond, to an aspiration.

The Flapper Queens

2020-08-18 Comics & Graphic Novels
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Release : 2020-08-18
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Flapper Queens by : Trina Robbins

Download or read book The Flapper Queens written by Trina Robbins. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the '20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith Stevens, who chronicled the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of the '20s and '30s in the pages of The Boston Globe; and Virginia Huget, possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, whose girls, with their angular elbows and knees, seemed to always exist in a euphoric state of Charleston.

Flappers and the New American Woman

2008-01-01 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Flappers and the New American Woman by : Catherine Gourley

Download or read book Flappers and the New American Woman written by Catherine Gourley. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the symbols that defined perceptions of women during the late 1910s and 1920s and how they changed women's role in society.

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