Movers and Shakers

VERY GOOD in a very good Mylar protected dust jacket. No marks. Binding is tight and square. xvii, 542 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm. . . . . . . . FROM THE DUST JACKET FLAP: This absorbing eyewitness account of the Greenwich Village in the years just before World War l is a treasure trove of anecdotes and documents that brings to life one of the most turbulent periods of radical politics, art, and philosophy in American history. The author was mistress of a Fifth Avenue salon that was the meeting place fora circle of friends and family including John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Max Eastman, and many other "movers and shakers" absorbed in free thought and experimental styles of life and art. She writes here of the Armory Show that introduced cubism to American audiences and of the Paterson Strike Pageant at Madison Square Garden, the great radical production that she and her lover John Reed engineered. She introduces us to Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, Margaret Sanger, John Collier, Bill Haywood, and includes a generous selection of letters and poems by Gertrude and Leo Stein, John Reed, Hutchins Hapgood, and countless others. Also of interest are the author's accounts of her relationships with Ely Jelliffe and A. A. Brill, major members of the first generation of American psychoanalysts.

Product Info

ISBN: 0826308570

ISBN-13: 9780826308573

Publisher: Univ. of New Mexico Press

Year: 1985

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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