{"product_id":"american-moderns-9780691142838","title":"American Moderns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early twentieth century, a brand of men and women moved to New York City. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. This book tells the story of most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which  became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stansell frames her book around three activities: talking, writing and loving. She compels readers to appreciate what was shockingly new in each activity--no small feat, since we now take (nearly) for granted the unfettered speech, print and sex that these early radicals found so daring.\"--Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times \"[American Moderns] is about the creation of a new life in early-twentieth-century New York... Stansell's book is a triumph.\"--Eunice Lipton, Nation \"[Stansell's] history of Greenwich Village between 1890 and 1920 never forgets that people who defy political convention and people who defy artistic convention gravitate toward each other whatever their differences.\"--Village Voice \"Stansell's book will certainly appeal to all those wishing to know more about radical politics in America, and its relationship with art and domestic life.\"--Richard Martin, American Studies Today","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403769749847,"sku":"9780691142838","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691142838.jpg?v=1730484490","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-moderns-9780691142838","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}