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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philipp Blom |
ISBN: | 9780465022496 0465022499 |
OCLC Number: | 884814402 |
Description: | xii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : 1,567 days -- Part I. Postwar : 1918: Shell shock -- 1919: A poet's coup -- 1920: Moonshine nation -- 1921: The end of hope -- 1922: Renaissance in Harlem -- 1923: Beyond the Milky Way -- 1924: Men behaving badly -- 1925: Monkey business -- 1926: Metropolis -- 1927: A palace in flames -- 1928: Boop-boop-a-doop! -- Part II. Prewar : 1929: The magnetic city -- 1930: Lili and the Blue Angel -- 1931: The anatomy of love in Italy -- 1932: Holodomor -- 1933: Pogrom of the intellect -- 1934: Thank you, Jeeves -- 1935: Route 66 -- 1936: Beautiful bodies -- 1937: War within a war -- 1938: Epilogue : Abide by me. |
Other Titles: | Life and culture in the West, 1918-1938 |
Responsibility: | Philipp Blom. |
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Wall Street Journal "[An] eminently readable tome full of splendid anecdotal detail. Mr. Blom's ability to convey a mood and to synthesize complex issues, is admirable... Anyone reading this book today in the context of our own culture of doubt will feel an immediate affinity to the anxious and even desperate celebration of life that it portrays." Financial Times "Blom's technique is to blend transformative moments with biographical vignettes, sometimes of offbeat personalities. Experts on specific episodes can be sought out elsewhere. For the general reader, Blom delivers an orderly sense of the maelstrom of incidents and ideas with panache." New York Times "A fluent, often entertaining account of the period." New Yorker "[A] lucid appraisal of Western cultures between the wars..." Literary Review (UK) "Compelling... Like other good popular histories, Fracture will make the uninitiated think, and the initiated think twice." Read more...


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- Europe -- History -- 1918-1945.
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