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When I set out to write a book about the natural history of breasts, I knew I'd have to answer some awkward questions about my book topic. At a... Continue »
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Terrible Honesty Mongrel Manhattan in TH

by Ann Douglas

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Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation.

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Ann Douglas has taught American Studies at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia University, where she is now professor of English and Comparative Literature. Her previously published works include The Feminization of American Culture.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780374524623
Subtitle:
Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Author:
Douglas, Ann
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
New york (state)
Subject:
Intellectual life
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
Customs & Traditions
Subject:
New york (n.y.)
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life.
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Subject:
Customs
Subject:
Traditions
Copyright:
1995
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Trade Paperback
Publication Date:
19960131
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
608
Dimensions:
9.16 x 6 x 1.6 in 1.94 lb
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