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John Held Jr.
With unflinching irreverence and caustic wit, John Held Jr.’s pen lampooned the very decadence and superficiality of the Roaring Twenties, that he, in many ways helped manufacture and is so closely associated with. Although brilliant in their satirical evaluation of the Flaming Youth of the 1920′s and early 30′s, Held’s flappers, sheiks and drugstore cowboys constitute only [...]