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Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Subjects
Gould, Joe, 1889-1957.
Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962.
Oral history.
Biography -- Methodology.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women sculptors -- United States -- Biography.
Sculptors, Black -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Gould, Joe, 1889-1957.
Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962.
Oral history.
Biography -- Methodology.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women sculptors -- United States -- Biography.
Sculptors, Black -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Joe Gould's teeth / Jill Lepore.
by
Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Call #:
974
.71
L598j
Subjects
Gould, Joe, 1889-1957.
Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962.
Oral history.
Biography -- Methodology.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Women sculptors -- United States -- Biography.
Sculptors, Black -- United States -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781101947586 (hc.)
9781101971796 (pbk.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi Book."
Contents:
Meo Tempore -- Miss Savage -- Case No. 231.
Summary:
The dark, spellbinding tale of the search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joseph Ferdinand Gould (1889-1957), also known as Professor Seagull, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, and Ezra Pound. Gould began his life's work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly everything anyone ever said to him. "I am trying to preserve as much detail as I can about the normal life of every day people," he explained, because "as a rule, history does not deal with such small fry." By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould, his manuscript had grown to more than nine million words. But when Gould died in 1957, in a mental hospital, the manuscript was nowhere to be found. Then, in 1964, in "Joe Gould's Secret," it was claimed that the book had been, all along, merely a figment of Gould's imagination. Harvard historian Jill Lepore, unpersuaded, decided to find out. The result is a Poe-like tale of detection, madness, and invention. Digging through archives all over the country, Lepore unearthed evidence that "The oral history of our time" did in fact once exist. Relying on letters, scraps, and Gould's own diaries and notebooks--including volumes of his lost manuscript--Lepore argues that Joe Gould's real secret had to do with sex and the color line, with modernists' relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, and, above all, with Gould's terrifying obsession with the African American sculptor Augusta Savage. In ways that even Gould himself could not have imagined, what Gould wrote down really is a history of our time: unsettling and ferocious. Author Jill Lepore is a professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages.
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