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

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

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-478) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The brazen age

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bibliography

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907154934

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David Reid

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

Table Of Contents

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 émigrés ; The City at war -- Words, words, words. Books are 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 ; Conference at the Waldorf -- Days without end

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New York City and the American empire, politics, art, and bohemia

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