{"product_id":"american-rhapsody-writers-musicians-movie-stars-and-one-great-building-paperback","title":"American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudia Roth Pierpont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stories of America's most extraordinary strivers and their failures and triumphs\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Rhapsody\u003c\/i\u003e presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClaudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's \u003ci\u003eRhapsody in Blue\u003c\/i\u003e has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Rhapsody\u003c\/i\u003e offers a history of twentieth-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people, and the immense difficulty of this human experiment.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaudia Roth Pierpont\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, where she has written about the arts for more than twenty years. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRoth Unbound: A Writer and His Books\u003c\/i\u003e, an exploration of the life and work of Philip Roth, and \u003ci\u003ePassionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467914658045,"sku":"9780374536947","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/TzRzenhDUUY1bWkyNkRYQ0FVdzl3UT09.webp?v=1777281436","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/american-rhapsody-writers-musicians-movie-stars-and-one-great-building-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}