Terrible honesty : mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Author(s)

• Douglas, Ann

Bibliographic Information

Terrible honesty : mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Ann Douglas

Papermac, 1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-575) and index

Discography: p. 575-576

First published in the United States by Farra, Straus and Giroux, 1995

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Focusing on artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Eugene O'Neill, Walter Winchell, Irving Berlin and Ernest Hemingway, this text is the story of the men and women who made New York the capital of American literature, music and language in the 1920s. Ann Douglas argues that when, after World War I, the US began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, American artists and thinkers determined to break with what they saw as the false and derivative cultural tradition of Europe and the past. New York became the heart of daring and accomplished historical transformation when blacks and whites, men and women together created the new American culture.

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Details

• NCID: BA41582170
• ISBN:
  • 0333646886
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 605 p., [24] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F128.5
  • DC20 : 974.7/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Arts, American -- New York (N.Y.)
  • LCSH : Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (N.Y.)
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life