The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties” by William Wiser

This book revealed much about Paris that I didn't know. There were a few stories regarding Coco Chanel, Diaghilev, and other Russian expaptriates that I knew very little about and found very interesting. It also covered culture-makers as diverse as writers, dancers, musicians, fashionists, etc. This book had excellent authors who were the literary/artistic community in 1920s Paris. Almost everybody who had talent was there, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, James Baldwin, Picasso, and Dali within many others. The style of the authors individual stories were in the format of magazine articles which I thought were clever making me tune into each article that kept surprising me every step of the way. Even though this book was time consuming considering that it was packed with facts and real evidence such as addresses among others, every time I went into a different story I read many interesting anecdotes. To me this was the best book seeing that it was deep into the cultural history of Paris of the '20s.