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The glitter of 1920s America was seductive, from jazz, flappers, and wild all night parties to 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, D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue—and it produced a dizzying array of writers, musicians, and film stars, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Bessie Smith and Charlie Chaplin.
In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of the compelling people and events that characterized the decade to produce a gripping portrait of the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just “the years between wars.” It was an epoch of passion and change—an age, she observes, not unlike our own.
LUCY MOORE was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the U.S. before studying history at Edinburgh. Voted one of the “top twenty young writers in Britain” by the Independent on Sunday, her books include the bestselling Maharanis and the acclaimed Liberty
In Anything Goes, Lucy Moore interweaves the stories of the compelling people and events that characterized the decade to produce a gripping portrait of the Jazz Age. She reveals that the Roaring Twenties were more than just “the years between wars.” It was an epoch of passion and change—an age, she observes, not unlike our own.
LUCY MOORE was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the U.S. before studying history at Edinburgh. Voted one of the “top twenty young writers in Britain” by the Independent on Sunday, her books include the bestselling Maharanis and the acclaimed Liberty
Praise for Anything Goes:
“A gorgeous historical indulgence.”--InStyle
"Anything Goes provides a fine social history of 1920s America, packed with the rise of Hollywood, gangster crime, political trials and events. Stories of the people and events that characterized the Jazz Age make for a fine survey of an era of passion and change that energized America. This lively coverate is suitable for history and general lending collections alike."--The Midwest Book Review
“Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high-speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.” --Publishers Weekly
“Lucy Moore’s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects—from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval—Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.” --ForeWord Reviews
“A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelist’s relish for human foibles.” --The Sunday Times (London)
“A gorgeous historical indulgence.”--InStyle
"Anything Goes provides a fine social history of 1920s America, packed with the rise of Hollywood, gangster crime, political trials and events. Stories of the people and events that characterized the Jazz Age make for a fine survey of an era of passion and change that energized America. This lively coverate is suitable for history and general lending collections alike."--The Midwest Book Review
“Quickstepping over the surface of the 1920s, a high-octane and high-speed decade that F. Scott Fitzgerald christened the Jazz Age, U.K. writer Moore emphasizes that the 1920s was a time a lot like our recent past.” --Publishers Weekly
“Lucy Moore’s enlightening, well-researched biography of the 1920s will appeal to scholars as well as a general audience. Filled with attention-grabbing details that many historians neglect and a wide range of subjects—from celebrities like Charlie Chaplin or Bessie Smith to political corruption and social upheaval—Anything Goes will not disappoint readers, no matter their educational background.” --ForeWord Reviews
“A varied and dazzling portrait gallery of crooks and film stars, boxers and presidents, each brilliantly delineated and coloured in by a historian with a novelist’s relish for human foibles.” --The Sunday Times (London)
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