The Brazen Age

Author : David Reid
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0394572378
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazen Age written by David Reid and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, the rise of Hitler and World War II would send some of Europe's most talented men and women to America's shores, vastly enriching the fields of science, architecture, film, and arts and letters--the list includes Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Gropius, George Grosz, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Lukacs. Reid draws a portrait of the frenzied, creative energy of a bohemian Greenwich Village, from the taverns to the salons. Revolutionaries, socialists, and intelligentsia in the 1910s were drawn to the highly provocative monthly magazine The Masses, which attracted the era's greatest talent, from John Reed to Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, John Sloan, and Stuart Davis. And summoned up is a chorus of witnesses to the ever-changing landscape of bohemia, from Malcolm Cowley to Anaïs Nin.

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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazen Age Banish'd ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1724 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Heywood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The golden age. The silver age. The brazen age. The first and second parts of the iron age written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Heywood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The golden age. 1611. The silver age. 1613. The brazen age. 1613. The first and second parts of the iron age. 1632 written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Reid
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870664
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazen Age written by David Reid and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an unprecedented and unique synthesis of genius, ambition, and the avant-garde. While concentrating on those five years, David Reid also reaches back to the turn of the twentieth century to explore the city’s progressive politics, radical artistic experimentation, and burgeoning bohemia. From 1900 to 1929, New York City was a dynamic metropolis on the rise, and it quickly became a cultural nexus of new architecture; the home of a thriving movie business; the glittering center of theater and radio; and a hub of book, magazine, and newspaper publishing. In the 1930s, the rise of Hitler and World War II would send some of Europe’s most talented men and women to America’s shores, vastly enriching the fields of science, architecture, film, and arts and letters—the list includes Albert Einstein, Erwin Panofsky, Walter Gropius, George Grosz, André Kertész, Robert Capa, Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Lukacs. Reid draws a portrait of the frenzied, creative energy of a bohemian Greenwich Village, from the taverns to the salons. Revolutionaries, socialists, and intelligentsia in the 1910s were drawn to the highly provocative monthly magazine The Masses, which attracted the era’s greatest talent, from John Reed to Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, John Sloan, and Stuart Davis. And summoned up is a chorus of witnesses to the ever-changing landscape of bohemia, from Malcolm Cowley to Anaïs Nin. Also present are the pioneering photographers who captured the city in black-and-white: Berenice Abbott’s dizzying aerial views, Samuel Gottscho’s photographs of the waterfront and the city’s architectural splendor, and Weegee’s masterful noir lowlife. But the political tone would be set by the next president, and Reid looks closely at Thomas Dewey, Henry Wallace, and Harry Truman. James Forrestal, secretary of the navy under Roosevelt, would be influential in establishing a new position in the cabinet before ascending to it himself as secretary of defense under Truman, but not before helping to usher in the Cold War. With The Brazen Age, David Reid has magnificently captured a complex and powerful moment in the history of New York City in the mid-twentieth century, a period of time that would ensure its place on the world stage for many generations.

Author : William Ingram
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A London Life in the Brazen Age written by William Ingram and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Langley was a man on the make if there ever was one. He is the entrepreneur who built the Swan Theater and, until now, this meager fact is nearly all there has been to know about him. Yet, William Ingram suggests, "this is like thinking of Henry Clay Folger or Henry E. Huntington only as the founders of libraries. His life was multifarious, and the Swan was but one part of it; to understand the man, we must know what else was on his mind." This book is a rich account of Langley's role in the development of the Elizabethan theater, and a substantial contribution to the social and the economic history of Elizabethan London. Langley, an arrogant, ruthless, violent man of deals and usury, serves as the index to the London of his times. He was, Ingram assures us, imbued "with that spirit of enthusiasm and expansion...of ostentation and aggrandizement, that lent itself so readily to the pens of the social satirists of the period."

Author : W. I. (W. Ingram)
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ISBN 13 : 9780783722771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A London Life in the Brazen Age written by W. I. (W. Ingram) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Stage: Staging in the theatres: Seventeenth Century written by Edmund Kerchever Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. K. Chambers's seminal four-volume account of the private, public, and court stages, together with other forms of drama and spectacle surviving from earlier times, from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth until the death of Shakespeare. Haled as a comprehensive compendium of 'practically all the discoverable evidence upon the various parts of the subject, collected, weighed, sorted, classified and built up with immense care into a logical and beautiful structure' (New Statesman), the work is still much consulted by today's scholars and historians.

Author : William Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Ages; Together with Essays on Various Subjects written by William Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Doctrine written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: