Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: the American Bohemia

Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, & political movement in 20th-century N.Y. City. It was the destination for rebellious men & women who flocked there from all over the country to fulfill their artistic, political, & personal dreams. This vol. presents the remarkable, outrageous, often interrelated biographies of the giants of Amer. journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, & art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century, among them Eugene O'Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jackson Pollock, Djuna Barnes, & Max Eastman. What other community could claim a spectrum ranging from Henry James to Marlon Brando, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Abbie Hoffman? Photos.Wetzsteon, Ross is the author of 'Republic of Dreams : Greenwich Village: the American Bohemia', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756796143 and ISBN 0756796148.