After World War I, America found its happy place again and cooked up the nearly decade-long party known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Key ingredients were Prohibition booze, jazz, speakeasies, and ...

Carefree, reckless, flappers seemed to enjoy living on the edge, like these atop Chicago’s Sherman Hotel. George Rinhart / Corbis via Getty Images She was the sexy ingénue, spending evenings in jazz ...

‘Flapper” tries to analyze a flashy type of American party girl best known for vanity, hedonism and drunken abandon. To his credit, the author, Joshua Zeitz, gets to Page 290 of a 291-page text before ...