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Author:

Reid, David, 1946- author.

Title:

The brazen age : New York City and the American empire : politics, art, and Bohemia / David Reid.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvii, 304 pages, 12 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bohemianism--New York--New York--History--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.)--Civilization.
New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue. the last hurrah of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Empire and communications -- City lights -- Cultural capital -- The greater city -- Babylon revisited -- Wandering rocks -- City of refuge -- Exiles and emigres -- The city at war -- Words, words, words -- Books as bullets -- New York discovers America -- Limousines on grub street -- Scenes of writing -- That winter-and the next -- A fractious peace -- New York observed -- Soldier's home -- The city in black and white -- Berenice Abbott's "village in the city" -- Gottscho's Oz -- Weegee's dark carnival -- Greenwich Village: ghosts, goths, and glimpses of the moon -- Bohemia was yesterday -- Conciliating nobody: the masses and the villagers -- Brightness fall -- Another part of the forest -- Culture and anarchy: "The sublime is now" -- 1948: The end of something -- Verdict -- Last hurrah at the Waldorf -- Days without end.

ISBN:

0394572378 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780394572376 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2015024900

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)