American Rhapsody Bestseller interweaves the curious stories of

interweaves the curious stories of opium s promoters and attackers

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American Rhapsody Bestseller interweaves the curious stories ofClaudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the