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Fracture : life and culture in the west, 1918-1938 / Philipp Blom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blom, Philipp, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--1918-1945.
- Europe.
- History.
- Europe--Civilization--20th century.
- Civilization.
- United States--History--1919-1933.
- United States.
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2015.
- Summary:
- The award-winning author of The Vertigo Years argues that in the aftermath of World War I, Western culture redirected energies into hedonistic, aesthetic and intellectual adventures of self-discovery in ways that triggered world-changing innovations.
- Contents:
- Part I Postwar
- 1918: Shell Shock 19
- 1919: A Poet's Coup 39
- 1920: Moonshine Nation 59
- 1921: The End of Hope 79
- 1922: Renaissance in Harlem 97
- 1923: Beyond the Milky Way 113
- 1924: Men Behaving Badly 131
- 1925: Monkey Business 151
- 1926: Metropolis 173
- 1927: A Palace in Flames 195
- 1928: Boop-Boop-a-Doop! 215
- Part II Prewar
- 1929: The Magnetic City 233
- 1930: Lili and the Blue Angel 249
- 1931: The Anatomy of Love in Italy 267
- 1932: Holodomor 283
- 1933: Pogrom of the Intellect 297
- 1934: Thank You, Jeeves 317
- 1935: Route 66 333
- 1936: Beautiful Bodies 355
- 1937: War Within a War 373
- 1938 Epilogue: Abide by Me 397.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-442) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465022496
- 0465022499
- OCLC:
- 884814402
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