In 1925 the Jazz ... New York City. F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a time when "the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals looser." Definitions of the 1920s ...

It’s been a century since The Great Gatsby was first published, shining a light on extravagant New York lifestyles in an era that went down in history as the ‘Roaring Twenties’. It was the ...

In Gangsters & Gold Diggers, Jerome Charyn transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life—the Roaring ... New York history to life—conjuring an intoxicating portrait of ...

American Dream: an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity” — definition by the ...

Jazz begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city, where the sound of marching bands, Italian opera, Caribbean rhythms, and minstrel shows fills the streets with a ...