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Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair

Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Graydon Carter (Editor), Graydon Carter (Introduction by), David Friend (Editor)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2015-11-03Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143127901ISBN-10:014312790XUPC:9780143127901Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Antiques & CollectiblesBook Subcategory:Essays, Modern, Magazines & NewspapersBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCHPSH0AQ3
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143127901ISBN-10:014312790XUPC:9780143127901Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Antiques & CollectiblesBook Subcategory:Essays, Modern, Magazines & NewspapersBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCHPSH0AQ3
Graydon Carter has been the editor of Vanity Fair since 1992. He lives in New York City.

David Friend is Vanity Fair's editor of creative development.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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