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CHAPTER 4 ”FIVE AND TEN CENT lustS AND DREAMS”

Marion Davies, Charlie Chaplin, Cecil De h those of the professional writers like Anita Loos and the journalist Adela Saint John are generally er's sensationalist Hollywood Babylon Hollywood Babylon dishes the dirt on Hollywood scandals and Marjorie Rosen's 1973 dishes the dirt on Hollywood scandals and Marjorie Rosen's 1973 Popcorn Venus Popcorn Venus explores woraphy of Fatty Arbuckle for my account of his rise and fall explores woraphy of Fatty Arbuckle for my account of his rise and fall

CHAPTER 5 ”MY God! HOW THE MONEY ROLLS IN!”

Journalist William Allen White provides the best public portrait of the troubled Warren Harding, while rival Washi+ngton hostesses Evalyn McLean (Father Struck it Rich, 1936) and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Crowded Hours, 1933) give insights into his and Florence's private lives Two books published in 1998 were also helpful: a biography of Edward Doheny (Dark Side of Fortune by Margaret Davis) and, especially, by Margaret Davis) and, especially, Florence Harding Florence Harding by Carl Anthony by Carl Anthony

CHAPTER 6 ”THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA IS BUSINESS”

While I highly reco in America (The Mirror Makers, 1984), Robert Lacey's Ford: The Men and the Machine Ford: The Men and the Machine (1986) and Vincent Curcio's 2000 biography of Walter Chrysler, without doubt the best book on sly industrious middle-class America is Sinclair Lewis's brilliant 1922 novel, (1986) and Vincent Curcio's 2000 biography of Walter Chrysler, without doubt the best book on sly industrious middle-class America is Sinclair Lewis's brilliant 1922 novel, Babbitt Babbitt

CHAPTER 7 FEAR OF THE FOREIGN

Sinclair Lewis, a passionate defender of Sacco and Vanzetti, also wrote a semi-fictionalized account of their ordeal, Boston Boston (1928) Another of their defenders, the novelist John Dos Passos, collected information for their defense in (1928) Another of their defenders, the novelist John Dos Passos, collected infor the Chair (1927) Sacco and Vanzetti's letters were collected in 1927 and republished with a good summary of the trials, evidence and its later rauin Classics in 1997 (1927) Sacco and Vanzetti's letters were collected in 1927 and republished with a good summary of the trials, evidence and its later rauin Classics in 1997

CHAPTER 8 THE KU KLUX KLAN REDUX

Henry Fry's 1922 expose of the Ku Klux Klan's resurgence is still fascinating, though fuller and clearer accounts of the Klan's rise and fall in the 1920s can be found in Wyn Wade's 1987 The Fiery Cross The Fiery Cross and Nancy Maclean's 1994 and Nancy Maclean's 1994 Behind the Mask of Chivalry Behind the Mask of Chivalry I found Kathryn Blee's 1991 I found Kathryn Blee's 1991 Women in the Klan Women in the Klan, a detailed exploration of the role of wo

CHAPTER 9 IN EXILE

Harry Crosby's extraordinary and vivid diaries (published as Shadows of the Sun Shadows of the Sun in 1977) and Caresse's later memoirs ( in 1977) and Caresse's later memoirs (The Passionate Years, 1955) are their own testimony Janet Flanner's articles as the New Yorker New Yorker's Paris correspondent (collected in 2003 as Paris was Yesterday Paris was Yesterday) give a flavor of how Americans experienced Paris in the 1920s, as does A Everybody Was So Young, about Gerald and Sara Murphy In fiction, Kay Boyle's 1934 My Next Bride My Next Bride, though notas a resentful roman a clef about the Crosbys to whoway's 1927 The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises is the ultimate novel about Americans in Paris is the ultimate novel about Americans in Paris

CHAPTER 10 THE NEW YORKER