Paris in the Fifties Paperback - 1999
by Stanley Karnow
This "New York Times" bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring city, from the vantage point of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a part of it. 20 line drawings.
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In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafes and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendes-France, as well as Communist hacks and the demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Andre Malraux, and visit the glittering salons where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France's leading gourmet, who taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute cuisine. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too.
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- Title Paris in the Fifties
- Author Stanley Karnow
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Second Printing
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), NY
- Date 1999-01-26
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780812931372 / 0812931378
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 5.59 x 0.89 in (21.18 x 14.20 x 2.26 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects France - Politics and government - 1945-, Paris (France) - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97018521
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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