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Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair
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ISBN10: 014312790X
ISBN13: 9780143127901
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780143127901
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Nov 3 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Offering readers an inebriating swig from the great cocktail shaker of the Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age, the age of Gatsby--Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells showcases unforgettable writers in search of how to live well in a changing era. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a Murderers' Row of the world's leading literary lights, including: - F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be
- Clarence Darrow on equality
- E. E. Cummings on Calvin Coolidge
- D. H. Lawrence on women
- Djuna Barnes on James Joyce
- John Maynard Keynes on the collapse in money value
- Dorothy Parker on a host of topics, from why she hates actresses to why she hasn't married
- E. E. Cummings on Calvin Coolidge
- D. H. Lawrence on women
- Djuna Barnes on James Joyce
- John Maynard Keynes on the collapse in money value
- Dorothy Parker on a host of topics, from why she hates actresses to why she hasn't married
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