Before The Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920’s
by Otto Friedrich
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Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in black & wine boards with DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear as shown, with reinforced closed tear & chipping.
Tawdry, dangerous and undeniably exciting story.
A haunting, comprehensive portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of Berlin in the 1920s. "The City of Nets," as Brecht called Berlin, before the deluge, and people who created and those who destroyed it.
This collection of anecdotes about Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The author devotes each chapter to a year, but really the book is arranged thematically, as he ties each year to some cultural, economic, or political aspect of Berlin life. There is lots of color here, from gruesome crime scenes and assassinations to tales of the lives of famous artists. But you have to overlook several weaknesses: the heavy foreshadowing implied in the title, uneven treatments when themes and years don't overlap evenly, and an irritating proclivity for dropping the names of the famous refugees the author interviewed in the early 1970s. Still, for the kind of manic urban energy that produces really cutting-edge art and really interesting history, Berlin in the 20s was the place to be and this book conveys a strong sense of that whirlwind.
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Written 3.14.2021SK # 4872-32721 Img.6047
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4872-32721
- Title
- Before The Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920’s
- Author
- Otto Friedrich
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed. 1st Prt'g.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Berlin
- Size
- 418 Rough Cut Pages
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