The Jazz Age may have ended in 1929, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who called it an age of miracles, an age of art, an age of excess — one that once people lost confidence, “it didn’t take long for the flimsy structure to settle earthward.” However, according to social historian Michael Wolraich, there was more going on during that era than a loss of confidence. Wolraich’s latest social history, The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age, describes the period in extensive detail.