Paris in the Fifties - Hardcover

Karnow, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812927818 ISBN 13: 9780812927818

Verlag: Times Books, 1997

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Book by Stanley Karnow

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of In Our Time recounts his period in 1950s Paris as a young foreign correspondent for Time magazine, offering a vivid memoir of the city's elite and Beat. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains" --the most Parisian American. Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other.

Karnow came to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion, and romance. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter c

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0812927818
• ISBN 13: 9780812927818
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352