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Paris in the Fifties - Stanley Karnow
Paris in the Fifties
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This New York Times bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring city, from the vantage point of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a part of it. 20 line drawings.
This New York Times bestseller chronicles a beautiful and bygone era in the history of the world's most alluring city, from the vantage point of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a part of it. 20 line drawings.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780812931372 (0812931378)
ASIN: 812931378
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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Musings of a Book Addict
Musings of a Book Addict rated it
3.0 Paris in the Fifties
Stanley Karnow is definitely a great writer, but I'm much more interested in the artists and revolutionary writers of 1950's Paris, not the cigar-smoking, gin-playing, "Mad Men" of the newspaper world. If that's your bag, pick this book up immediately, otherwise skip it.
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
Like the blurb says: "A beautiful and bygone era comes to life again in this exquisite chronicle of postwar Paris, elegantly penned by an award-winning American journalist who was there."Exquisite and elegant in the same sentence. Sounds like something I'd dash off. Karnow has a knack for nimbly nav...
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
Like the blurb says: "A beautiful and bygone era comes to life again in this exquisite chronicle of postwar Paris, elegantly penned by an award-winning American journalist who was there."Exquisite and elegant in the same sentence. Sounds like something I'd dash off. Karnow has a knack for nimbly nav...
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