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001 2015024900
003 DLC
005 20150917081518.0
008 150916s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015024900
020 $a9780394572376 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9781101870662 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aF128.5$b.R45 2015
082 00 $a974.7/043$223
100 1 $aReid, David,$d1946-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe brazen age :$bNew York City and the American empire : politics, art, and bohemia /$cDavid Reid.
264 30 $aNew York City and the American empire : politics, art, and bohemia
263 $a1602
264 1 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2015]
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue. 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 emigres -- The city at war -- Words, words, words -- Books as 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 -- Last hurrah at the Waldorf -- Days without end.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xHistory$y1898-1951.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xCivilization.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aGreenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aBohemianism$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century.