Introduction

• Home
• About the Book
• Curtain Raiser

1920

• Uncle Sam's Water Wagon
• The Red Raids
• One Born Every Minute
• Say It Ain't True, Joe
• The Rise and Fall of Big Jim
• The Birth of Radio
• Let's Dance
• It Happened in 1920...

1921

• Gee, What A President He'd Make!
• The Million-Dollar Gate
• Known But To God
• A Free Soul in Jail
• It Happened in 1921...

1922

• Sand, Sex and Scandal
• The Strange Death of William Desmond Taylor
• Hollywood Goes Moral
• The Man in the Padded Room
• It Happened in 1922...

1923

• Mr. Coolidge Prays
• Bloodshed on the Common
• Keep Cool With Coolidge
• Big Boom in the West
• John Barleycorn: Outlaw
• The Broken Butterfly
• It Happened in 1923...

1924

• Murder For Fun
• Brute Force: Red Grange
• Dion O'Banion: Altar Boy Gone Wrong
• The Florida Bubble
• It Happened in 1924...

1925

• Mr. Torrio, Chairman of the Board
• F. Scott Fitzgerald — Paradise and Zelda
• The Word, the Book and Mister Bryan
• The Hero Dog...
• It Happened in 1925...

1926

• Clara Bow
• The Great Lover
• The Murders in Lover's Lane
• It Happened in 1926...

1927

• The Lindy Hop
• Sixty Homers
• T-H-E   L-O-N-G   C-O-U-N-T
• Those Anarchist Bastards
• It Happened in 1927...

1928

• Hello, Sucker
• The House of Morgan (Helen)
• Joe Sent Me
• Al Smith — Brown Derby to Silk Hat
• Three Bad Boys
• Owney Madden and Some Supporting Players
• It Happened in 1928...

1929

• Slaughter on Clark Street
• Public Enemy No. 1
• The Night Mayor of New York
• Everybody Ought to Be Rich
• It Happened in 1929...

Epilogue

• The Crash
• The Morning After
• Links
• Contact