Experimental Blog #37

Comments on "Anything Goes - A Biography of the Roaring Twenties" by Lucy Moore

Some of the most memorable developements and events of the 1920s, which seems to be the "birth of Modern America", are; the spectacular developement of motion pictures with sound in Hollywood and the lives of its equally spectacular stars, both male and female; African-American cultural developement in Harlem and Jazz in other cities as well; the widespread growth and activity of the Ku Klux Klan; the flourishing gangster activity, especially in Chicago, thanks to prohibition; the trials, and execution, of the anarchist-communists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti; the Scopes trial, about the teaching of Darwinian evolution versus the Bible, with its charismatic lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan; the building of America's first giant skyscrapers in New York; and Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.
Some of the specific representative people of the era were; Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Warren and Florence Harding, Al Capone, Charlie Chaplin, and Jack Dempsey.
The author also writes a lot about Harry and Caresse Crosby, but how many people today know who they were?