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Flapper
- A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
- Narrated by: Daniella Rabbani
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Editorial reviews
Historian Joshua Zeitz gives us over 11 hours of stories, facts, and fun about the women of the roaring '20s in America. From the first words of the introduction, listeners will realize that this is no dry history lesson. Daniella Rabbani's raspy voice is so friendly and personable it is more like listening to a friend with a fabulous repertoire of stories up her sleeve.
Whether relating what the rules of dating was like in the '20's (and how those rules were broken), or chronicling the lives of some of the era's brightest stars, this audiobook is a wonderful, colorful and comprehensive history of the country's first sexual revolution.
Publisher's Summary
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.