The classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition. With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era. With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index. 6 x 9 format.