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. MORE: New York Times book review Hotwired book review and link to audio interview with Douglas Boston Book Review book review Amazon |
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