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Description for News of Paris
Hardback. A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing and delightful book. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing and delightful book.
A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing and delightful book.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636766
SKU
V9781566636766
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for News of Paris
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 journalists 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
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 journalists 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