Flappers

“A juicy, energetic exploration of six dazzling iconoclasts who all flared to fame in the Roaring ‘20s.” — Los Angeles Times “Mackrell’s book bubbles with the giddy energy of the era, filled with parties, affairs, cocktails, and cocaine—and captures its inevitable dissolution as well.” — The Boston Globe By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrow-raising new attitudes about art and sex—all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one the could shake of