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The Shores of Bohemia - A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 (Hardcover)
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The Shores of Bohemia - A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960 (Hardcover)
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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!
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