Presents the stories of twenty-five personalities of the 1920's drawn from the worlds of politics, government, literature, music, sports, religion, art, aviation, anthropology and crime.

Includes: Louis Armstrong, William Jennings Bryan, Al Capone, The Comedy Kings, Calvin Coolidge, Clarence Darrow, Jack Dempsey, W.E.B. Du Bois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford, George Gershwin, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Charles Lindbergh, Aimee Semple McPherson, Margaret Mead, Henry Louis H.L. Mencken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Georgia O'Keeffe, Satchel Paige, Dorothy Parker, Babe Ruth, and Margaret Sanger.