Bright Young People: The Lost
Generation of London?s Jazz Age by
D. J. Taylor
Tremendous
Before the media circus of Britney, Paris, and our modern obsession with
celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-
seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who
romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Evelyn Waugh
immortalized their slang, their pranks, and their tragedies in his novels, and
over the next half century, many—from Cecil Beaton to Nancy Mitford and
John Betjeman—would become household names. But beneath the
veneer of hedonism and practical jokes was a tormented generation,
brought up in the shadow of war. Sparkling talent was too often brought
low by alcoholism and addiction. Drawing on the virtuosic and often
wrenching writings of the Bright Young People themselves, the biographer
and novelist D. J. Taylor has produced an enthralling account of an age of
fleeting brilliance.

Personal Review: Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of
London?s Jazz Age by D. J. Taylor
I read the Jacket Cover on the NY Times Bestseller list and (of course) I
then proceeded to check prices at Amazon. The price was GREAT for just
being a newly released book and a very entertaining book at that! A
glimpse into the lives of the London Well to do who had the media by their
pens in the mid to late 20's. So basically this is a book about the 1920s
Paris hilton's, and whoever else is in the well off and connected inner circle
nowadays and the perez hilton's who followed their outrageous ways of
living, nothing but crazy parties! though, some of the people in the book
actually make something substantial out of their lives. ha!
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