The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
A New York, Historical, Geography book. An interwoven series of mini-biographies centered around Greenwich Village, New York, mainly...
Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the story of America itself. Illustrated with historic black-and-white photographs, The Village features lively, well-researched profiles of many of the people who made Greenwich Village famous, including Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mark Twain, Margaret Sanger, Eugene O’Neill, Marcel Duchamp, Upton Sinclair, Willa Cather, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, Anais Nin, Edward Albee, Charlie Parker, W. H. Auden, Woody Guthrie, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, E. E. Cummings, and Bob Dylan.
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- Pages: 640 pages
- ISBN: 9780062078209 / 0
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An interwoven series of mini-biographies centered around Greenwich Village, New York, mainly of literary figures and musicians with a smattering of politicians, mobsters and regular folks. Interesting and often entertaining. Wonderfully evocative history of the creative cauldron that was/is Greenwich Village from the 1600s to today. From the original Dutch to Dylan, and on. Bohemians, artists, writers, performers, and Salon supporters flocked to this corner of Manhattan. Inspiring! Enjoyed this book tremendously. But when I recommended this to family over the holidays I received a blank look. Personally it was wonderfully written. If you think of New York and you live out west you probably aren't thinking of the caverns of Wall Street. What comes to mind are the funky neighborhoods of Greenwich Village. Probably...
