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Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0870705881
Four Americans in Paris
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Four Americans in Paris
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015057955372
Four Americans in Paris by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf
Four Americans in Paris
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015031510186
Four Americans in Paris by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf
Americans in Paris
Charles Glass
Author : Charles Glass
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101195567
Americans in Paris by Charles Glass Pdf
Acclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season, from the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of expatriates and their struggles in Nazi Paris. Before the Second World War began, approximately thirty thousand Americans lived in Paris, and when war broke out in 1939 almost five thousand remained. As citizens of a neutral nation, the Americans in Paris believed they had little to fear. They were wrong. Glass's discovery of letters, diaries, war documents, and police files reveals as never before how Americans were trapped in a web of intrigue, collaboration, and courage. Artists, writers, scientists, playboys, musicians, cultural mandarins, and ordinary businessmen-all were swept up in extraordinary circumstances and tested as few Americans before or since. Charles Bedaux, a French-born, naturalized American millionaire, determined his alliances as a businessman first, a decision that would ultimately make him an enemy to all. Countess Clara Longworth de Chambrun was torn by family ties to President Roosevelt and the Vichy government, but her fiercest loyalty was to her beloved American Library of Paris. Sylvia Beach attempted to run her famous English-language bookshop, Shakespeare & Company, while helping her Jewish friends and her colleagues in the Resistance. Dr. Sumner Jackson, wartime chief surgeon of the American Hospital in Paris, risked his life aiding Allied soldiers to escape to Britain and resisting the occupier from the first day. These stories and others come together to create a unique portrait of an eccentric, original, diverse American community. Charles Glass has written an exciting, fast-paced, and elegant account of the moral contradictions faced by Americans in Paris during France's dangerous occupation years. For four hard years, from the summer of 1940 until U.S. troops liberated Paris in August 1944, Americans were intimately caught up in the city's fate. Americans in Paris is an unforgettable tale of treachery by some, cowardice by others, and unparalleled bravery by a few.
The Making of Americans in Paris
Noel Sloboda
Author : Noel Sloboda
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433101041
The Making of Americans in Paris by Noel Sloboda Pdf
While living in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, expatriate American writers Edith Wharton (1862-1937) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) never crossed paths. Even so, they did rub shoulders in print, in autobiographical essays published by The Atlantic Monthly in 1933. Noel Sloboda shows that the authors pursued many of the same professional goals in these essays and in the book-length life writings that grew out of them, A Backward Glance (1934) and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). By analyzing the personal and cultural contexts in which these works were produced, as well as subjects common to both of them, Sloboda illuminates a previously unrecognized solidarity between Wharton and Stein. The relationship between the authors is built upon careful analysis of A Backward Glance and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and it is framed by a consideration of the markets into which their life writings were first released. The alignment of Wharton and Stein as life writers will be of interest to those studying autobiography, modern literature, and American women writers.
The 15:17 to Paris
Anthony Sadler,Alek Skarlatos,Spencer Stone,Jeffrey E. Stern
Author : Anthony Sadler,Alek Skarlatos,Spencer Stone,Jeffrey E. Stern
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610397346
The 15:17 to Paris by Anthony Sadler,Alek Skarlatos,Spencer Stone,Jeffrey E. Stern Pdf
Now a major motion picture directed by Clint Eastwood, in theaters February 2018. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons. Another major ISIS attack was about to begin. Khazzani wasn't expecting Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone. Stone was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the US Air Force, Skarlatos was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three were fearless. But their decision-to charge the gunman, then overpower him even as he turned first his gun, then his knife, on Stone-depended on a lifetime of loyalty, support, and faith. Their friendship was forged as they came of age together in California: going to church, playing paintball, teaching each other to swear, and sticking together when they got in trouble at school. Years later, that friendship would give all of them the courage to stand in the path of one of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations. The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near tragedy averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travelers, needed it most.
Four Lives in Paris
Hugh D. Ford
Author : Hugh D. Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865474729
Four Lives in Paris by Hugh D. Ford Pdf
The lives of four Americans, living in Paris in the years between the wars, are explored in this entertaining account from the author of Published in Paris. Composer George Antheil, editor Margaret Anderson, critic Harold Stearns, and writer Ken Boyle comprise this appealing group of expatriates basking in the literary glow of Paris in the 20's and 30's. Includes 59 black-and-white photographs.
The Greater Journey
David McCullough
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416576891
The Greater Journey by David McCullough Pdf
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Becoming Americans in Paris
Brooke L. Blower
Author : Brooke L. Blower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199792771
Becoming Americans in Paris by Brooke L. Blower Pdf
Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they elicited from others. For many sojourners-not just for the most famous expatriate artists and writers- Paris served as an important crossroads, a place where Americans reimagined their position in the world and grappled with what it meant to be American in the new century, even as they came up against conflicting interpretations of American power by others. Interwar Paris may have been a capital of the arts, notorious for its pleasures, but it was also smoldering with radical and reactionary plots, suffused with noise, filth, and chaos, teeming with immigrants and refugees, communist rioters, fascism admirers, overzealous police, and obnoxious tourists. Sketching Americans' place in this evocative landscape, Blower shows how arrivals were drawn into the capital's battles, both wittingly and unwittingly. Americans in Paris found themselves on the front lines of an emerging culture of political engagements-a transatlantic matrix of causes and connections, which encompassed debates about "Americanization" and "anti-American" protests during the Sacco-Vanzetti affair as well as a host of other international incidents. Blower carefully depicts how these controversies and a backdrop of polarized European politics honed Americans' political stances and sense of national distinctiveness. A model of urban, transnational history, Becoming Americans in Paris offers a nuanced portrait of how Americans helped to shape the cultural politics of interwar Paris, and, at the same time, how Paris helped to shape modern American political culture.
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
Adam Gopnik
Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015058733240
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology by Adam Gopnik Pdf
Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, "Americans in Paris" distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world."
The Other Americans in Paris
Nancy L. Green
Author : Nancy L. Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226137520
The Other Americans in Paris by Nancy L. Green Pdf
A “thorough and perceptive” portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light (The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers’ representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L. Green introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population—predecessors to today’s expats—while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (or in some cases, poverty) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration, and that debates over Americanization have deep roots in the twentieth century.
Americans in Paris
George Wickes
Author : George Wickes
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : WISC:89044243772
Americans in Paris by George Wickes Pdf
The American expatriate movement in Paris--from Gertrude Stein's arrival on the Left Bank in 1903 to Henry Miller's departure in 1939--is a unique chapter in the history of arts and letters. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Paris was the cultural centre of Europe. Revolutionary ideas germinated here in every art and were immediately felt worldwide.
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0316073652
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris Pdf
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked
Cézanne and America
John Rewald
Author : John Rewald
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252285
Cézanne and America by John Rewald Pdf
The classic work by internationally acclaimed Cézanne scholar John Rewald In Cézanne and America, John Rewald presents a full account of how Paul Cézanne’s reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921, and of how some of the world’s largest collections of his works were formed in the United States. This is the fascinating story of enthusiastic young American artists who took up Cézanne’s cause after they discovered him in Paris. It is also the story of the discerning early American collectors of his work—Leo and Gertrude Stein, the Havemeyers, and John Quinn, among others—many of whom made their first purchases from Cézanne’s wily dealer Ambroise Vollard in Paris, or from the dealer Alfred Stieglitz in New York, and of the beginning of the famous collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Each chapter is illustrated not only with Cézanne’s works but also with portraits of collectors and critics and with previously unpublished pages from diaries, dealers’ ledgers, and Cézanne’s own correspondence.
Eiffel's Tower
Jill Jonnes
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101052518
Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes Pdf
The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Eiffel's Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.