The six subjects of Judith Mackrell's new group biography, Flappers, were notorious celebrities in the 1920s, though mostly forgotten today, which is as good a reason as any to pick up the book and start reading. In her introduction, Mackrell attempts to state her case that all six were emblematic of the 1920s, in eternal competition with the 60s to be the Decade That Changed Everything.…
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