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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction
Prologue: The Last Hurrah of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Part I: Empire and Communications
1: City Lights
2: Cultural Capital
3: The Greater City
4: Babylon Revisited
5: Wandering Rocks
Part II: City of Refuge
1: Exiles and Émigrés
2: The City at War
Part III: Words, Words, Words
1: Books Are Bullets
2: New York Discovers America
3: Limousines on Grub Street
4: Scenes of Writing
Part IV: That Winter—and the Next
1: A Fractious Peace
2: New York Observed
3: Soldier’s Home
Part V: The City in Black and White
1: Berenice Abbott’s Village in the City
2: Gottscho’s Oz
3: Weegee’s Dark Carnival
Part VI: Greenwich Village: Ghosts, Goths, and Glimpses of the Moon
1: Bohemia Was Yesterday
2: Conciliating Nobody: The Masses and the Villagers
3: Brightness Falls
4: Another Part of the Forest
5: Culture and Anarchy: “The Sublime Is Now”
Part VII: 1948: The End of Something
1: Verdict
2: Conference at the Waldorf
Part VIII: Days Without End
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits
A Note About the Author
Illustrations
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