What fun! News of Paris evokes the romantic in those of us who wish we had been there. Listen carefully, and you can hear Gershwin's 'American in Paris' in the background.
Terence Smith, Special Correspondent
Newshour With Jim Lehrer
Ronald Weber gives us an odd and intriguing look at a rarely explored corner of cultural history. Aging ... Read morejournalists will love it, and so will just about everyone else.
Tony Hillerman Weber has found and entertainingly explored one of the Lost Generation's lost corners in this engagingly readable history.
Richard Schickel What a treat this book is.
Morley Safer
E son du grisli
Faces frozen in...b&w photos become animated in this superb history, thanks to Weber's fluid, detailed writing and flair.
Publishers Weekly
News of Paris is one of those agreeable books that make you wish you could have lived then and done that.
Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Readers interested in American journalism as practiced abroad in the 1920s and 1930s will enjoy this engaging book.
Vanessa Bush
Booklist
A useful reminder that the American presence in Paris...was larger and more varied than is usually understood.
Jonathan Yardley
The Review of Higher Education
It was a memorable period, and this is a memorable book.
Norman Rowlinson
The Buffalo News
A vivid account.
Kirkus
Weber's book is an old war chest full of stories...these journalists are fun to spend time with.
Marc Weingarten
International Herald Tribune
Captures the vitality and verve of Paris in the interwar years.
Marie Marmo Mullaney
Library Journal
Most accessible to readers who understand the cultural and political environment of Europe between the wars.... Recommended.
CHOICE
This is a good-old-days kind of book....Rich entertainment.
Columbia Journalism Review
It was...a community with a delightfully high tolerance for eccentric behavior, and, er, ingenuity, which Weber...details with verve.
Robert Whitcomb
The Weekly Standard
Hemingway is here, but the colorful lesser lights make for even better copy.
Santa Barbara News-Press
This is a richly anecdotal history of the American newspaper people-Ernest Hemingway and Henry Miller among them-who flocked to Paris during the 15 years after the armistice that ended World War I.
San Juan Star
One of those agreeable books that makes you wish you could have lived then and done that....writing is solid.
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The book's writing is solid.
Janesville Gazette
This book makes an important and lively contribution to the scholarship on the period.
American Historical Review
An old war chest full of stories about this intoxicating period in journalism.
Marc Weingarten
The New York Times
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