When bootleg whisky cost twelve dollars a quart and a smuggled copy of Jurgen fifteen, George Palmer Putnam invited a group of not-too-serious thinkers to sound off on prohibitions of every kind. Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun, Ben Hecht, Alexander Woollcott and others take aim at book censors, the Volstead Act, moral reformers and the uninhibited flapper.
A sparkling 1922 snapshot of Jazz Age wit from members of the Algonquin set and their friends. Download the free EPUB.