Ocean State Libraries

Bryson examines closely the events and personalities of the summer of 1927 when America's story was one of brawling adventure, reckless optimism and delirious energy.

Sleepless Nights is a scrapbook of memories: the first pangs of sexual longing, Billie Holiday holding forth in a cheap hotel, and the swagger and heartbreak of New York City.

A 15-year-old girl goes to private school in Manhattan in 1928 and wishes her traveling father spent more time at home.

A chronicle of the 1920s, including the fads, triumphs, tragedies, and fashions of that decade.

"A collection of letters by the ordinary men, women, and children who suffered through the Great Depression."--

"The story of a beautiful Southern belle desperately determined to become a great ballerina ... of her violent, passionate marriage to a famous artist, her love affair with a young French aviator on the Riviera ... of wild parties, drunken brawls, insane escapades, the dissolute, destructive pleasures that gutted the lives of the most famous couple of the flaming twenties, as one headed toward alcoholism, the other toward madness ..."