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Book

The brazen age : New York City and the American empire : politics, art, and bohemia

Call Number

  • 974.71 R354 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York City and the American empire : Politics, art, and bohemia

Physical Description

xvii, 504 pages ; 25 cm

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.

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