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297 S., zahlr. Illustr. (auch farbig); 28 cm. Orig.-Halbleinenband m. farb. illustr. OUmschl.

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Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - ... As a bastion of diversity, Greenwich Village has been home turf to both Beatniks and Henry James. It has played key roles in the careers of Barbra Streisand and Abraham Lincoln, the introduction of the ice cream soda and the television, the death of Prohibition and the rise of gay liberation, the murder of the Masses and the founding of Reader's Digest. Here are the Villagers who demanded landmarks protection, who turned MacDougal Street garrets into galleries, who thumbed their noses at sexism and censorship. They have invited one generation after another to come to Greenwich Village to reinvent their lives. Or, as Village troubadour Bobby Edwards once sang, "Why be an industrial slave when you can be crazy?" Woven through Village history are the lives of those famous or infamous people whose careers and escapades often changed how Americans think and live. Here Emma Goldman won her nickname as the "hausfrau anarchist," here Eugene O'Neill shocked the Salvation Army, here Walt Whitman caroused, and Edna St. Vincent Millay charmed, and Sophie Tucker sang for her supper, and John Sloan painted, and George Washington slept. And here as well are the Villagers of today, offering lively counterparts to their legendary ancestors. Through interviews, meet Barney Josephson, whose Cafe Society defied the racial barriers of nightclubs; meet Florent Morellet, whose diner has become the hub of the city's new, downtown scene; meet Mark Russell, who transformed an abandoned Village school into a nerve center for avant-garde arts; and meet Snooky and Tish Belomo, who opened America's first punk boutique. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : CHRISTOPHER STREET AND SHERIDAN SQUARE ----- WASHINGTON SQUARE ----- BROADWAY: "A PROMISCUOUS CHANNEL" ----- THE NORTH VILLAGE ----- THE WEST VILLAGE ----- THE SOUTH VILLAGE ----- THE EAST VILLAGE ----- AFTERWORD ----- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ----- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ----- INDEX. ISBN 0517573229