News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars - Hardcover

Weber, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566636760 ISBN 13: 9781566636766

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2006

Synopsis

A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing and delightful book.

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Review:

Ronald Weber gives us an odd and intriguing look at a rarely explored corner of cultural history. Aging journalists will love it, and so will just about everyone else.--Tony Hillerman

Weber has found and entertainingly explored one of the Lost Generation's lost corners in this engagingly readable history.--Richard Schickel

Weber's book is an old war chest full of stories...these journalists are fun to spend time with.--Marc Weingarten "International Herald Tribune "

Readers interested in American journalism as practiced abroad in the 1920s and 1930s will enjoy this engaging book.--Vanessa Bush "Booklist "

Captures the vitality and verve of Paris in the interwar years.--Marie Marmo Mullaney "Library Journal "

What fun! News of Paris evokes the romantic in those of us who wish we had been there. Listen carefully, and you can hear Gershwin's 'American in Paris' in the background.--Terence Smith, Special Correspondent "Newshour With Jim Lehrer "

It was...a community with a delightfully high tolerance for eccentric behavior, and, er, ingenuity, which Weber...details with verve.--Robert Whitcomb "The Weekly Standard "

An old war chest full of stories about this intoxicating period in journalism.--Marc Weingarten "The New York Times "

What a treat this book is.--Morley Safer "E son du grisli "

News of Paris is one of those agreeable books that make you wish you could have lived then and done that.--Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Synopsis:

"This book recaptures the colorful, often zany world of Paris-American journalists during the glory days of the expatriate period in the 1920s and 1930s by concentrating on the lives of such figures as Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, and Henry Miller, and on the life of the major newspapers, including the "Herald" and the "Tribune". It not only illuminates a golden moment in the history of American letters, it catalogues the lives of the men and women who inspired a whole generation of young reporters." - Morley Safer, "60 Minutes".

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1566636760
• ISBN 13: 9781566636766
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352