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Craig Saper - The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century - 9780823271450 - V9780823271450
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The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century

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Description for The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century Hardback. Biography of Robert Carlton "Bob" Brown, avant-garde publisher, poet and reading machine inventor, bestselling pulp fiction and Hollywood movie treatment writer, cookbook author with Cora and Rose Brown, advertiser copyrighter, editorial board member of the Masses, curator of A Museum of Social Change, and much more. Num Pages: 320 pages, 52 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGL; DSB; DSBH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.

Contemporary publishing, e-media, and writing owe much to an unsung hero who worked in the trenches of the culture industry (for pulp magazines, Hollywood films, and advertising) and caroused and collaborated with the avant-garde throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Carlton Brown (1886–1959) turned up
in the midst of virtually every significant American literary, artistic, political, and popular or countercultural movement of his time—from Chicago’s Cliff Dweller’s Club to Greenwich Village’s bohemians and the Imagist poets; from the American vanguard expatriate groups in Europe to the Beats. Bob Brown churned out pulp fiction and populist cookbooks, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823271450
SKU
V9780823271450
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Craig Saper
Craig Saper is Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program at UMBC.

Reviews for The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown: A Real-Life Zelig Who Wrote His Way Through the 20th Century
"Outstanding. In many ways, this is much more than a biography of one Bob Brown; it is a biography of a lost twentieth century."
-Craig Dworkin The University of Utah "A cross between an intellectual biography of this literary dynamo and a picaresque novel. Bob Brown has found a sensitive, insightful, and appreciative biographer who not only knows how ... Read more

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