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Ladataan... Paris in the Fifties (vuoden 1999 painos)Tekijä: Stanley Karnow (Tekijä), Annette Karnow (Kuvittaja)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. NA This book expands upon articles the author researched for Time Magazine in the 1950s but presents them as episodes out of his own life. For example, the article on the prince of the gastronomes includes the author’s recounting of having dinner with this Parisian luminary. His summary of popular trials includes his own experience attending them. The reader gets not only interesting information on Paris and France but also the insights of an American living in and learning about Paris and the French. Audiobook. Readng about the 50s. The time of my childhood basically. Also my envy of folks who knew about the world. I grew up in Idaho. Never really knew there was a larger world, with possibilities, for a very long time. My husband and I are also currently working with business partners from France. So this is very interesting. Recommend for folks with interest in 50s, France. This is a journalist. But a good one. 4257 Paris in the Fifties, by Stanley Karnow (read 12 Jan 2007) Karnow in the 1950s was a correspondent in Paris, and this 1997 book tells of his time there. Most of the book is of much interest, though that he had to tell us of his masturbation and his time with a whore and his fornicating with the woman he eventually married I did not think added to the book's interest. Nor were his chapters on French food and French fashion of much interest to me. But he has excellent chapters on France's penal colony in South America, on the LeMans car crash on June 11, 1955 (83 dead, up to 100 wounded--but the race was completed nevertheless), on events in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria; and on Ho Chi Minh in Paris from 1917 to 1923 He writes very well, though there are no footnotes nor any bibliography, since it is a memoir, not a history. A well done interest-holding book näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
In July 1947, 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 cafés and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-France, as well as Communist hacks and the demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and André Malraux, and visit the glittering salons where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France's leading gourmet, who taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute cuisine. Karnow takes us to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompanies a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and recalls the famous automobile race at Le Mans when a catastrophic accident killed more than eighty spectators. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too. A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the world. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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