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Laddar... Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modernav Joshua Zeitz
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The roaring twenties ! Lots of well known flappers discussed, Clara Bow, Coco Chanel, Zelda Fitzgerald . Interesting and fun to read. ( ) I maybe should've lemmed this, but I was interested in the subject matter. The writing just wasn't that great. I mean it jumped from here to there and sometimes I didn't really see the link to the actual subject of the book. Also I maybe was more interested in the flappers as a culture phenomenon than the icons of the flapper era (I rather read biographies for that). It just never got into any depth and I also felt like the writer didn't really appreciate the people he was writing about. So, I want to read more about this particular subject, but not from this author. Dance over to my blog, Opinions of a Bookaholic, and check out my review! http://opinionsofabookaholic.blogspot.com/2013/08/flapper-joshua-zeitz.html This is one of my favorite nonfiction reads! The author does an excellent job of creating the significance and impact of this pivotal era. I was amazed to put together all of the significant changes that occurred in the twenties into one story. I think the author's use of real lives that were key to these changes made the story more real. Though very informative, it is actually a fun read! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920's 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. Her newfound freedom heralded a radical change in American culture. 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 era to exhilarating life. 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. The men and women who made the flapper were a diverse lot. There was Coco Chanel, the French orphan who redefined the feminine form and silhouette, helping to free women from the torturous corsets and crinolines that had served as tools of social control. In California, where orange groves gave way to studio lots and fairytale mansions, three of America's first celebrities-Clara Bow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks-Hollywood's great flapper triumvirate-fired the imaginations of millions of filmgoers. Towering above all were Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascent and spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era that would come to an abrupt end on Black Tuesday, when the stock market collapsed and rendered the age of abundance and frivolity instantly obsolete. With its heady cocktail of storytelling and big ideas, Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who launched the first truly modern decade. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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