Guaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments.In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands is the story of four Ja...

"A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel." — VogueHadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in Paris...

A sweeping biography of one of the most influential and controversial legends of late twentieth-century fashion, an iconic designer whose colorful creations, including the "wrap dress," captured the modern feminist spirit.The daughter of a Holocaust survivor and wife of an Austrian nobleman, Diane von Furstenberg burst onto New York's fashion scene in 1969, and within a few years became an international sensation with her colorful wrap dress in printed jersey. Embraced by millions ...

Jó néhány könyv született már Coco Chanelről - arról a kényes és máig sem teljesen tisztázott témáról azonban mindig is kevesebb szó esett, hogy a németek megszállta Franciaországban milyen szerepet töltött be. Arról tehát, hogy egy a náci államapparátushoz tartozó férfi szeretője volt, és az Ellenállás tagjaiból szerveződött Francia Belső Erők letartóztatta és kihallgatta őt hazaárulás vádjával. Az egy újságíró éles szemével és egy regényíró lelkével megalkotott, hiánypótló Coco a Ritzben...

Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, as World War II drew to a close, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to France.Many of the facts are lost to history, partly through Chanel’s own obfuscation, but this much is known: the charges grew out of her wartime romance with a German spy, and one morning two soldiers from the French Forces of the Interior—the loose band of Res...

In the popular imagination, the story of Prohibition in America is a story of men and male violence, one full of federal agents fighting gangsters over the sale of moonshine. In contrast, Firebrands is the story of four Jazz Age dynamos—all women—who were forces behind the passage, the enforcement, the defiance, and, ultimately, the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.In Gioia Diliberto's take on this period of history, we meet Ella Boole, the stern and ambitious leader of ...