A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.
But glitter fades to grit when Louise’s Greenwich Village apartment becomes the scene of a violent murder and a former suitor hustling for Tin Pan Alley fame hits front-page headlines as the prime suspect.
In the 1950s, he had served as senator from Massachusetts during the time that Senator McCarthy effectively took over the Senate. Eleanor had challenged him then to be more outspoken in his opposition to McCarthyism.
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"Greenwich Village represents American social science during the interwar years at its best.
NYPD detective Jane Bauer and her team reopen a ten-year-old case involving the killing of Micah Anthony, a young African-American undercover cop who had infiltrated a profitable gun-trading operation, following a trail that leads from the ...
With its patchwork of secluded courtyards, gardens and narrow tree-lined streets, New York's Greenwich Village is one of the very few neighborhoods that still retains the charm and timelessness of...
The author describes growing up as the politically active daughter of Italian working-class Communists, her love affair with Bob Dylan and its disintegration, and her memories of a time of dramatic change and possibility.
From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The Village tell the ...
The New Woman: Feminism in Greenwich Village, 1910-1920
This is a book for those who are already beguiled by the Village as well as those just discovering this fabled place.