Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Chapter 1 - “YOU CANNOT MAKE YOUR SHIMMY SHAKE ON TEA” Chapter 2 - “THE RHYTHM Of LIFE” Chapter 3 - FEMME FATALE Chapter 4 - “FIVE AND TEN CENT LUSTS AND DREAMS” Chapter 5 - “My God! HOW THE MONEY Rolls IN” Chapter 6 - “THE BUSINESS Of AMERICA IS BUSINESS” Chapter 7 - FEAR Of THE FOREIGN Chapter 8 - THE Ku Klux KLAN REDUX Chapter 9 - IN EXILE Chapter 10 - THE NEW YORKER Chapter 11 - “YES, WE HAVE NO BANANAS TODAY” Chapter 12 - THE SPIRIT Of ST. LOUIS Chapter 13 - THE BIG FIGHT Chapter 14 - CRASH BIBLIOGRAPHY Acknowledgements INDEX The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. 141 Wooster Street New York, NY 10012 Copyright © 2010 by Lucy Moore All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress eISBN : 978-1-59020451-1 http://us.penguingroup.com XXXX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Caresse and Harry Crosby and Kitsa Wilkins. Courtesy of the Morris Library, South Illinois University. Al Capone and Henry Laubenheimer. ©Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. The Louis Armstrong Hot Five. Roger-Viollet/Topfoto. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Courtesy of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Archive, Princeton University Library. Theda Bara. Fox Films/The Kobal Collection. Warren and Florence Harding. Getty Images. Henry Ford. Getty Images. Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco. ©Bettmann/Corbis. Ku Klux Klan. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Photo Company Collection. Caresse Crosby. Courtesy of the Morris Library, South Illinois University. Dorothy Parker. The Art Archive/Culver Pictures. Harold Ross. Jane Grant Collection, University of Oregon. Clarence Darrow and John Scopes. The Art Archive. The Spirit of St Louis. Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University. Jack Dempsey. ©Bettmann/Corbis. Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. ©Bettmann/Corbis. William Van Alen. ©Bettmann/Corbis. Glamorous exiles Caresse and Harry Crosby and Harry’s sister Kitsa on the beach at Deauville, September 1929. Narcisse Noir reclines at their feet.