Sisällysluettelo:
“…Prologue. the last
hurrah of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Empire and communications -- City lights -- Cultural capital -- The greater city -- Babylon revisited -- Wandering rocks -- City of refuge -- Exiles and emigres -- The city at war -- Words, words, words -- Books as bullets -- New York discovers America -- Limousines on grub street -- Scenes of writing -- That winter-and the next -- A fractious peace -- New York observed -- Soldier's home -- The city in black and white -- Berenice Abbott's "village in the city" -- Gottscho's Oz -- Weegee's dark carnival -- Greenwich Village: ghosts, goths, and glimpses of the moon -- Bohemia was yesterday -- Conciliating nobody: the masses and the villagers -- Brightness fall -- Another part of the forest -- Culture and anarchy: "The sublime is now" -- 1948: The end of something -- Verdict -- Last
hurrah at the Waldorf -- Days without end…”
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