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    Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Noonday Press, 1996)
    A dynamic cultural analysis of white and black Manhattan in the decade following the Great War. Covers many of the era's great thinkers and artists — Bessie Smith, Dorothy Parker, Duke Ellington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Irving Berlin, Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill, and Ernest Hemingway, among others.

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