Long Party

In 1920 America staggered out of a world war and a plague, exhausted and grieving. Within a few short years it was throwing the loudest, richest, most extravagant party in its history. The nation put itself on wheels, wired its homes for electricity, gathered around the radio, and learned — for the first time — to buy now and pay later. Jazz poured out of Harlem and Chicago and conquered the world...