Denby David
Denby David - Eminent Jews Bernstein Brooks Friedan Mailer - Hardcover
Denby David - Eminent Jews Bernstein Brooks Friedan Mailer - Hardcover
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Description: Leonard Bernstein Mel Brooks Betty Friedan Norman Mailer. Brilliant brash yet soulful they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields and apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four their Jewish heritage was electrified by American liberty. The results were explosive. As prosperity for Jews increased and anti - Semitism began to fade after World War II these four creative giants stormed through the latter half of the twentieth century altering the way people around the world listened to music defined what was vulgar comprehended the relations of men and women and understood the American soul. They were not saints; they were turbulent and self - dissatisfied intellectuals who fearlessly wielded their own newly won freedom to charge up American culture. Celebratory yet candid at times fiercely critical David Denby presents these four figures as egotistical and generous larger - than - life all of them yet more than vulnerable even heartbreaking in their ambition ferocity and pride.
Title: Eminent Jews Bernstein Brooks Friedan Mailer
Author(s): Denby David
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250193407
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/8/2025
Category: Autobiography: General
Description: Leonard Bernstein Mel Brooks Betty Friedan Norman Mailer. Brilliant brash yet soulful they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life. They worked in different fields and apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four their Jewish heritage was electrified by American liberty. The results were explosive. As prosperity for Jews increased and anti - Semitism began to fade after World War II these four creative giants stormed through the latter half of the twentieth century altering the way people around the world listened to music defined what was vulgar comprehended the relations of men and women and understood the American soul. They were not saints; they were turbulent and self - dissatisfied intellectuals who fearlessly wielded their own newly won freedom to charge up American culture. Celebratory yet candid at times fiercely critical David Denby presents these four figures as egotistical and generous larger - than - life all of them yet more than vulnerable even heartbreaking in their ambition ferocity and pride.
Title: Eminent Jews Bernstein Brooks Friedan Mailer
Author(s): Denby David
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250193407
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/8/2025
Category: Autobiography: General
