The village : 400 years of Beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village /

The village : 400 years of Beats and bohemians, radicals and rogues : a history of Greenwich Village /

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Author / Creator:	Strausbaugh, John, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013] ©2013
Description:	xiv, 624 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Subculture -- New York (State) -- New York. Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York. Bohemianism. Manners and customs. Subculture. Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History. Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Greenwich Village. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9128155

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Varying Form of Title:	Village : a history of Greenwich Village
ISBN:	9780062078193 (hbk.) 0062078194 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-593) and index.
Summary:	This is an anecdotal history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood, from the 1600s to the present. The most famous neighborhood in the world, Greenwich Village has been home to outcasts of diverse persuasions, from "half-free" Africans to working-class immigrants, from artists to politicians, for almost four hundred years. In this book, the author weaves a narrative history of the Village, a tapestry that unrolls from its origins as a rural frontier of New Amsterdam in the 1600s through its long reign as the Left Bank of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from its seat as the epicenter of the gay rights movement to its current status as an affluent bedroom community and tourist magnet. He traces the Village's role as a culture engine, a bastion of tolerance, freedom, creativity, and activism that has spurred cultural change on a national, and sometimes even international, scale. He brings to life the long line of famous nonconformists who have collided there, collaborating, fusing and feuding, developing the ideas and creating the art that forever altered societal norms. In these pages, geniuses are made and destroyed, careers are launched, and revolutions are born. Poe, Whitman, Cather, Baldwin, Kerouac, Mailer, Ginsberg, O'Neill, Pollock, La Guardia, Koch, Hendrix, and Dylan all come together across the ages, at a cultural crossroads the likes of which we may never see again. From Dutch farmers and Washington Square patricians to slaves and bohemians, from Prohibition-era speakeasies to Stonewall, from Abstract Expressionism to AIDS, and from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire to today's upscale condos and four-star restaurants, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the fresh and unforgettable story of America itself.
Other form:	Online version: Strausbaugh, John. village. 1st ed. New York : Ecco, c2013 9780062078209

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	xiv, 624 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-593) and index.
ISBN:	9780062078193 0062078194