books about: 1920s

books about: 1920s

books:

1920s

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

Laton Mccartney

Random House, 2008

"In the history of lovers, there was, I am sure, none to compare with Warren Gamaliel Harding"
This fine history by Laton Mccartney starts out with a different kind of extramarital relationship. Jake Hamon, the "Oil King of Oklahoma", was famous for saying "All I want to do is make money, and I don't care much how I make it." Hamon's money helped win Harding the ...

An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels)

Jacqueline Winspear

Henry Holt and Co., 2008

An Incomplete Revenge
Jacqueline Winspear's portrayal of an unusually complicated woman was the best yet of any of the Masie Dobbs mysteries. taking place in post war England. Maisie is caught up in a mystery surrounding a country village, and what seemed like planned arson. The ...

Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels)

Jacqueline Winspear

Henry Holt and Co., 2006

A Super Maise Dobbs Mystery
Georgina Bassington-Hope wants to find out how her twin brother, artist Nicholas Bassington-Hope died. She turns to P.I. Shrink Maise Dobbs, because she's sure there's been a coverup and that the police aren't trying at all to find her brother's killer, but according ...

The Well of Loneliness: A 1920s Classic of Lesbian Fiction

Radclyffe Hall

Anchor, 1990

extremely well written romantic tragedy
The first thing I noticed about Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness," was the beautiful descriptive exposition. Before the novel delves too far into modernism, it is apparent that it is hedging out the Victorian. Descriptions of the English countryside, of London ...

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribner, 1999

Awesome
This is a master piece in literature and should be read not only by student but everyone who enjoy a good written book. It is richly set in the jazz era and portraits the life and shallowness of Gatsby the main character. An impossible love and the empty life he lives ...

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago

Simon Baatz

Harper, 2008

Beautifully written - Reads like In Cold Blood
Baatz meticulously researches a fascinating subject and then tells the story in beautifully written prose. It is not an exaggeration to compare his book favorably with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, i.e. I couldn't put it down! For The Thrill Of It is the best book ...

Not in the Flesh: A Wexford Novel (Inspector Wexford Mystery)

Ruth Rendell

Crown, 2008

Back in the company of Inspector Wexford
I've been pretty hard on Ruth Rendell lately. I miss the startling acid observations in her earlier psychological thrillers and their wicked plot twists. I miss her writing as Barbara Vine, under which she produces her best work. After spending several decades in ...

The Black Hand: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas

Touchstone, 2008

I just LOVE this series
I couldn't wait for #5 to come out & it's as enjoyable as the rest. If you read the quote from Laurell K. Hamilton regarding this series, I simply couldn't agree more. My only fault is why can't Mr Thomas start writing 2 of these each year?

Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear

Penguin Books, 2004

Loved this book
What an interesting, intricate character is Maisie Dobbs! I read the second book of this series first, then went back to read this one. The flashback, revealing Maisie as a poor but brilliant girl, being granted (in a somewhat fairy-godmother style) education and ...

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Joshua Zeitz

Three Rivers Press, 2007

A very fun read.
I love the 1920's, the whole era was such an amazing time of transformation for women and the whole US. The 1920's were really the first modern era and the girls who called themselves flappers were the antithesis of their parents Victorian ideals. In our modern world ...

Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics)

Frederick L. Allen

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000

Contemporary AND historical!Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book
Recently while doing research for an exhibition on the 1920s, I purchased this fabulous little book called Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s. Historian Frederick Lewis Allen wrote it in 1931, before Prohibition was even repealed! I bought it because I ...

New World Coming: The 1920s And The Making Of Modern America

Nathan Miller

Da Capo Press, 2004

Fantastic introduction to the 1920's
It's an ambitious project to render a history of America in the twenties in only four hundred pages, but Nathan Miller performs the task admirably. The rise of the automobile, big business, jazz, prohibition, Coolidge prosperity, Lindbergh...any of these subjects is ...

Florence's Glassware Pattern Identification Guide: Easy Identification for Glassware from the 1920s Through ...

Gene Florence

Collector Books, 1998

Great
The book was very helpful, great photos, nicely laid out. Buyers should definately know, however, that it is a book of more rare pieces.

The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands Mysteries)

Barbara Cleverly

Delta, 2007

superb historical police procedural
In 1926, Scotland Yard Commander Joe Sandilands has come home to England after working cases in India over the last few years (see THE PALACE TIGER and THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE). Though the locale changes, the scene does not as Joe is assigned to a homicide ...

A Very Private Enterprise (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)

Elizabeth Ironside

Felony & Mayhem, 2007

A very private enterprise
I found it a bit tedious in the beginning but enjoyed the plot in mid to end of the story.