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Title: Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's by Ann Douglas ISBN: 0-374-52462-9 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ambitious undertaking
Comment: Remarkable book. My only complaint is that sometimes the details become overwhelming and the book loses its focus. That seems to be the product of its (maybe overly) ambitious scope. It bites off a lot but it also delivers a lot.
Rating: 5
Summary: Detailed, Scholarly Manhattan in the 1920's...
Comment: I don't know why this awesome book has negative reviews here. It is a little difficult true. But for a New Yorkphile, like me, it can't be beat, if you want to know New York in the 1920's, and to a lesser degree the nation. All the familiar names are covered: Scott and Zelda, Woolcott, Parker, Gerstein Stein, Freud,Jazz and Ellington among many others. New York as a huge rush for outsiders from their first sight. The skyscraper boom, and builders and architects. The movie industry.The extreme dangers of transatlantic flights, and coast to coast mail deliveries. The Harlem Renaissance, basically the city as a reinventing, percolating tornado.FDR, Damon Runyan,Irving Berlin,WEB Dubois,Singing the Blues, Mary Pickford, Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker (the fun loving mayor with questionable morals)the Great White Way, the Cotton Club...It is just about an endless ride thru this great town in the 1920's and beyond, including the aftershock of the 1930's...Sometimes a little difficult, but you can browse through the index too and find hundreds of worthy subjects to check out...One of the best journeys through a time and place that I know!! Also with some interesting photos too.
Rating: 1
Summary: A waste of money
Comment: This book is a waste of money. I received it as a gift so I couldn't return it. It is full of historical mistakes and careless errors. It is not worth taking the time to point them out.
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Title: Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (The Haymarket Series) by Michael Denning ISBN: 1859841708 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A., Jr. Baker ISBN: 0226035255 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930 by Lewis A. Erenberg ISBN: 0226215156 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1984 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s by Lynn Dumenil, Eric Foner ISBN: 0809015668 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Art for the Masses: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics, 1911-1917 by Rebecca Zurier ISBN: 0877226709 Publisher: Temple University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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