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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
John Strausbaugh
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Description for The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 204 x 30. Weight in Grams: 542.
Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the story of America itself. Illustrated with historic black-and-white photographs, The Village features lively, well-researched profiles of many of the people who made Greenwich Village famous, including Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mark Twain, Margaret Sanger, Eugene O'Neill, Marcel Duchamp, Upton Sinclair, ... Read more
Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the story of America itself. Illustrated with historic black-and-white photographs, The Village features lively, well-researched profiles of many of the people who made Greenwich Village famous, including Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mark Twain, Margaret Sanger, Eugene O'Neill, Marcel Duchamp, Upton Sinclair, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062078216
SKU
V9780062078216
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About John Strausbaugh
John Strausbaugh covered downtown Manhattan history and culture as a writer and editor for the weekly New York Press from 1988 through 2002. For the New York Times he wrote and hosted the Weekend Explorer series of articles, videos, and podcasts on New York City history. He has also written for the Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. His ... Read more
Reviews for The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
[A] loving and thoroughly researched look at what [Strausbaugh] calls 'a zone of rogues and outcasts from the start.' ... Fine social history humanized with a sort of paradise-lost wistfulness.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Strausbaugh has produced the definitive history of America's bohemian wellspring and prototypical modern neighborhood with all the verve and fun and rigor it ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Strausbaugh has produced the definitive history of America's bohemian wellspring and prototypical modern neighborhood with all the verve and fun and rigor it ... Read more