20Th Century category: 9982 books
The Five of Hearts
An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern...
When Women First Wore Army Shoes
A First-Person Account of Service as a Member of the Women's Army Corps During Wwii.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Daughter, sister and sister-in-law of Army men who would all rise to the rank of General, it was not much of a surprise when Ethel A. Starbird decided to serve her country as a member of the Womans Army Corps during World War II.
After multiple attempts to make weight to join the Army, due...
Chronicles of My Life
An American in the Heart of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2008
"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my...
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their...
Journey to the Abyss
The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably...
Ostend
Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is...
Hearts and Minds
The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing view of the luminously transparent relationship that was unconventional yet faithful to its ideals.
by Judith Mackrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The story of Venice’s “Unfinished Palazzo”— told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate, and fascinating residents: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse, and Peggy Guggenheim
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix...
Jet Set
The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international...
52 McGs.
The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert McG. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Among his devoted fans, his pieces were known simply as McGs. With a "genius for illuminating that sometimes ephemeral apogee in people's lives when they prove capable of generating a brightly burning spark" (Columbia Journalism Review), Robert McG. Thomas Jr. commemorated fascinating, unconventional...
The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 1
To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, marks the centenary...
A Chance Meeting
Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2004
“They met in ordinary ways,” writes Rachel Cohen in her introduction, “a careful arrangement after long admiration, a friend’s casual introduction, or because they both just happened to be standing near the drinks. . . . They talked to each other for a few hours or for forty years, and later...
Hope Dies Last
Keeping the Faith In Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
America’s most inspirational voices, in their own words: “If you’re looking for a reason to act and dream again, you’ll find it in the pages of this book” (Chicago Tribune).
Published when Studs Terkel was ninety-one years old, this astonishing oral history tackles one of the famed...