The Jazz Age glorified city life ... for better or worse, it created the model for society that all the world follows today." The 20s in all its lighthearted excess grew from a great darkness.

The sauciest girls even took to wearing stockings that ... Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the quintessential Jazz Age novel ...

The 1920s in America are remembered for hot jazz, flapper girls, and speakeasies. And a new exhibit in New York is bringing that era to life. Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design ...

As a boy he had watched girls on high stools rolling rough tobacco ... and young William Samuel Paley has kept step with the jazz age. Long ago he set himself up in the world like a Fitzgerald ...