Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern-Fast Shipping

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Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first trulymodern decade.

The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked herhemlines, dancedthe Charleston, and necked in roadsters. Moreimportant, she earned her own keep,controlled her own destiny, andsecured 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 intoManhattan’s extravagant Jazz Age nightlife; three of America’s first celebrities: ClaraBow, Colleen Moore, and Louise Brooks; Dallas-born fashion artist Gordon Conway; Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, whose swift ascentand spectacular fall embodied the glamour and excess of the era; and more, this is the story ofAmerica’sfirst sexual revolution, its first merchants of cool, itsfirst celebrities, andits most sparkling advertisement for the rightto pursue happiness.

Whisking usfrom the Alabama country club where Zelda Sayre firstcaught the eye of F. ScottFitzgerald to Muncie, Indiana, wherewould-be flappers begged their mothers for silkstockings, to theManhattan speakeasies where patrons partied till daybreak, historianJoshua Zeitz brings the 1920s to exhilarating life.