Critical Praise

"Vaill adroitly captures the laughter, the wit, the cocktails, and the sheer exuberance of this still-alluring period. "

———Entertainment Weekly

"A brilliant and wise account. "

———San Francisco Chronicle

"Marvelously readable. . . . Elegantly written. "

———The New York Times Book Review

"An exhaustively researched and brilliantly rendered biography. "

———Los Angeles Times

"[This is] a marvelously readable biography . . . elegantly written. "

———The New York Times Book Review