American Moderns

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Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century

By Christine Stansell
Metropolitan Books

A brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital.

In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a shabby neighborhood called Greenwich Village set out to change the world. Committed to free speech, free love, and politically engaged art, they swept away sexual prudery, stodgy bourgeois art, and political conservatism as they clamorously declared the birth of the new.