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(More customer reviews)This is a great cultural history of a period I was pretty ignorant about. I mean I'd read a lot about the roaring '20s and the war years of the '40s, plus lived the rest of the succeeding decades, pretty much. It is written with a sense of humor and a real attention to detail. It's author was married to the author of the Auntie Mame books, and they obviously shared a wry wit and a sharp eye for detail, as well as a polished, fluid writing style. The afterword, which was written about the '60s and Bob Dylan shows an appreciation for the much-maligned youth culture of the time, and points up the similarities between the rebellious '60s and very political '30s, both coming after decades of political complacency.
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