The splendid drunken twenties : selections from the daybooks, 1922-1930

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The splendid drunken twenties : selections from the daybooks, 1922-1930

Carl Van Vechten ; edited by Bruce Kellner

University of Illinois Press, c2003

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Description

This generous, representative sampling from the daybooks of Carl Van Vechten, one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance, is a rich resource and major reference tool for reconstructing the culture of 1920s New York, the social milieu during Prohibition, and more. Bruce Kellner has provided copious, informative notes identifying central figures and clarifying details. Between 1922 and 1930, Van Vechten kept a daily record of his activities. Not exactly diaries, but more than appointment books, the daybooks record his daily comings and goings, as well as the alliances, drinking habits, feuds, and affairs of a wide number of luminaries of the period. They catalog tales of bootlegging, literary teas, shifting cliques of artists and writers, cabaret slumming, sexual and social peccadilloes, and a seemingly endless sequence of parties.

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  • NCID
    BA64762295
  • ISBN
    • 0252028481
  • LCCN
    2002154448
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Urbana
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 336 p., [24] p. of plates
  • Size
    24 cm
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