Roaring Twenties

A History That Stands The Test of Time - It is scarcely uncommon among middle-class Americans of my generation, but as a teenager in the 1950s and a young adult in the 1960s, I was utterly, obsessively, terminally fascinated by the 1920s. I listened avidly to the early recordings of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, the musical comedies of George Gershwin, the album of Edward R. Murrow's "I Can Hear It Now" series that covered the decade. I fixated on Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Theda Bara. The Washington Post 28-nov-2007