Bohemians
A Graphic History
$44.70
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2014
Summary
The countercultures that came to define bohemia spanned the Atlantic, encompassing Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn and the Folies Bergère of Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein’s salons and the Manhattan clubs where Dizzy Gillespie made his name. Edited by Paul Buhle and David Berger, Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures. The stories collected here revisit the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, the rise of Greenwich Village and Harlem, the multi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781682616 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1781682615 |
| Author: | Paul Buhle, David Berger |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 742g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 189mm x 266mm |
Critics Review
Praise for Buhle’s
Excavates an essential part of American history … and does so with style, great graphics, and no punches pulled. – Luc Sante
The excitement and inspiration of their creative and courageous work is brilliantlycaptured in this wonderful graphic history. – Noam Chomsky
Ingenious in its conception and brilliant in execution. It is urgently necessary for our times: read this book and see how to raise your voice against all the forces that would drown you out. A modern activist’s primer! – Ben Affleck, in praise of A People’s History of the American Empire
Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle retired from Brown University and Providence, Rhode Island in 2009, to Madison, Wisconsin and full-time work editing comics. His many books include the Verso volumes Marxism in the United States (third edition, 2013), Wobblies!, and the authorized biography of C.L.R. James, The Artist as Revolutionary.
David Berger was born and raised first in Brooklyn and then in that most bohemian of suburbs, Croton-on-Hudson. He currently writes, teaches and occupies Wall Street while residing in Chelsea with his wife, the singer/songwriter Audra MsBlu Berger.
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