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ByJeff Somers

A century later, the Roaring Twenties still retains its hold on the American imagination.

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Lavish parties, conspicuous consumption, hot jazz, and illegal cocktails combined into a fever-dream of uniquely American overindulgence, marked by iconic fashions and design that retain their sheen of modernity. As ubiquitous as Jazz Age imagery is in our collective imaginations, most of us don't realize that the picture of the s is almost certainly based on mental images of something F.

Scott Fitzgerald wrote about his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald.

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The Fitzgeralds mirror their moment in history almost perfectly. They had extremely American beginnings (she a Southern Belle, he a Midwestern boy) and crashed onto the public scene in with the publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise.

The book was a success, and the Fitzgeralds were the toast of the American literary sc