Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

by D.J. Taylor

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D.J. Taylor's Bright Young People offers a scintillating portrait of 1920s London and the birth of the cult of celebrity.

Before the media circus of Britney, Paris, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Evelyn Waugh immortalized their slang, their...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0374532117

ISBN13:9780374532116

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Length:384 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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England Europe Great Britain Historical Study & Educational Resources History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social History Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks World

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