Author: Clara Elizabeth LaughlinPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
So You're Going to Paris!
Author: Clara Elizabeth LaughlinPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
So You're Going to Italy!
Author: Clara Elizabeth LaughlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
So You're Going to Rome!
Author: Clara Elizabeth LaughlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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We'll Always Have Paris
Author: Harvey LevensteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226473805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people. Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms. Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.
So You're Going to Paris!
Author: Clara Elizabeth LaughlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: Catherine Littlefield
Author: Sharon SkeelPublisher:
ISBN: 0190654546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This is the first biography of Catherine Littlefield, one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American ballet. As a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director, Littlefield built a ballet infrastructure in Philadelphia that was crucial to the proliferation of the art form in the United States.
Books of 1921-1925
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
King Con
Author: Paul WillettsPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0451495837
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game. Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most demanding and bravura performance of his life. In the fall of 1917, Laplante reinvented himself as Chief White Elk: war hero, sports star, civil rights campaigner, Cherokee nation leader—and total fraud. Under the pretenses of raising money for struggling Native American reservations, Laplante dressed in buckskins and a feathered headdress and traveled throughout the American West, narrowly escaping exposure and arrest each time he left town. When the heat became too much, he embarked upon a lucrative continent-hopping tour that attracted even more enormous crowds, his cons growing in proportion to the adulation of his audience. As he moved through Europe, he spied his biggest mark on the Riviera: a prodigiously rich Hungarian countess, who was instantly smitten with the con man. The countess bankrolled a lavish trip through Italy that made Laplante a darling of the Mussolini regime and a worldwide celebrity, soaring to unimaginable heights on the wings of his lies. But then, at the pinnacle of his improbable success, Laplante’s overreaching threatened to destroy him… In King Con, Paul Willetts brings this previously untold story to life in all its surprising absurdity, showing us how our tremendous capacity for belief and our longstanding obsession with celebrity can make fools of us all—and proving that sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2094
Book Description