The Washington Post, March 28th, 2006
FLAPPER A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern By Joshua Zeitz Crown. 338 pp. $24.95 The flapper is as dead and gone as bathtub gin, Texas Guinan, the tin lizzie and all the other oddities of the 1920s. In fact, most people today under the age of 50 probably need to have "flapper" defined for them. Here's how Joshua Zeitz does just that: She was "the New Woman of the 1920s [who] boldly asserted her right to dance, drink, smoke, and date -- to work, to own her own property, to live free of the strictures that governed her mother's generation." She "expe...
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