Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation

"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 ...