BOOK REVIEW: Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells by Graydon Carter, editor

The title of this book promises more than it delivers.  It’s a completion of seventy-two articles that were published in the magazine Vanity Fair in the 1910s, ‘20s, and ‘30s. On the whole, the articles are thoughtful, perceptive, and sometimes clever. I expected a frivolous, funny, and carefree expose of the Roaring-Twenties: jazz, bootleggers, flappers, […]