The Village - 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of

Zusatztext "The very best kind of cultural history: Literate! lucid! erudite! and entertaining." Informationen zum Autor 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 previous books include E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith , Rock 'Til You Drop , and Black Like You . A former resident of Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and Hell's Kitchen, he now lives in Brooklyn Heights. Klappentext The brilliantly lively, anecdotal biography of Greenwich Village, infamous and prodigiously influential, from the 1600s to the present Zusammenfassung 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, Willa Cather, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, Anais Nin, Edward Albee, Charlie Parker, W. H. Auden, Woody Guthrie, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, E. E. Cummings, and Bob Dylan.

Product details

• Authors: John Strausbaugh, Strausbaugh John
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780062078216
• ISBN: 978-0-06-207821-6
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, General and world history, The Americas, Urban communities, Social research and statistics, Relating to gay people, US West, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, HISTORY: WORLD, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Urban, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: Modern / 20th Century, LGBTQ STUDIES: HISTORY, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE: LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Research, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LGBTQ Studies / History