"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 off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women who defined this age -- Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diane Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Tamara de Lempicka -- would presage the sexual revolution by nearly half a century and would shape the role of women for generations to come.

"Mackrell portrays, with vivid facts, sexual candor, and incisive analysis, six intrepid, stylish, headline-grabbing women artists who exemplify the flapper revolution... Spectacularly dramatic and thought-provoking." -- Booklist (starred review)

"[Mackrell's] writing is bright and nimble, but she's also astute enough to delve beyond the flash and dazzle, the public illusions cast to hide private insecurity, pain and frustration." -- The New York Times Book Review

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