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Williams, John Taylor
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Bohemianism -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Arts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Biography.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Williams, John Taylor
Bohemianism -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Arts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Biography.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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The shores of Bohemia : a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960 /
John
Taylor
Williams
.
by
Williams
,
John
Taylor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Call #:
974.492 W673s
Subjects
Bohemianism -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Arts -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod -- History -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Biography.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780374262754 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-311 and index.
Summary:
"An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century. Their names are iconic: Eugene O’Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius -- the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation’s workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beach -- fronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, in the 1960s, as the postwar economy boomed, they took shelter in liberalism when the anticapitalist movement fragmented into other causes.
John
Taylor
“Ike”
Williams
, who married into the Cape’s artistic world and has spent half a century talking about and walking along its shores with these cultural and political luminaries, renders the twisting lives and careers of a generation of staggering American thinkers and creators. The Shores of Bohemia records a great set of shifts in American culture and the ideas and arguments fueled by drink, infidelity, and competition that made for a fifty-year conversation among intellectual leaders and creative revolutionaries. Together they found a community as they created some of the great works of the American Century. This is their story. Welcome to the party!"--Publisher.
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