The 40s : the story of a decade, the New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey ; introduction by David Remnick

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The 40s : the story of a decade, the New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey ; introduction by David Remnick

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the New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey ; introduction by David Remnick

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Introduction / David Remnick -- pt. 1. The war -- A note by George Packer -- Notes and comment : September 2, 1939 / E.B. White -- Paris postscript (On the fall of France) / A.J. Liebling -- Letters from London (On the Blitz) / Mollie Panter-Downes -- Survival (On Lieutenant John F. Kennedy) / John Hersey -- Cross-Channel trip (On D-Day) / A.J. Liebling -- The suspended drawing room (On post-Blitz London) / S.N. Behrman -- D Day, Iwo Jima / John Lardner -- Letter from Rome (On V-E Day) / Philip Hamburger -- Hiroshima / John Hersey -- pt. 2. American scenes -- A note by Jill Lepore -- Notes and comment : July 3, 1943 / E.B. White -- The old house at home (On McSorleyʹs Old Ale House) / Joseph Mitchell -- Opera in Greenville (On a lynching trial) / Rebecca West -- Letter from a campaign train (On the 1948 presidential campaign) / Richard Rovere -- Symbol of all we possess (On the Miss America Pageant) / Lillian Ross -- pt. 3. Postwar -- A note by Louis Menand -- Notes and comment : November 1, 1947 / E.B. White -- Greek diary : communists, socialists, and royalists / Edmund Wilson -- The birch leaves falling (On the Nuremberg trials) / Rebecca West -- The beautiful spoils : monuments men (On Nazi art theft) / Janet Flanner -- Come in, Lassie! (On the Red scare in Hollywood) / Lillian Ross -- Letter from Washington (On the North Atlantic Pact) / Richard Rovere -- Die Luftbrücke (On the Berlin airlift) / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- pt. 4. Character studies -- A note by Susan Orlean -- Notes and comment : April 21, 1945 / E.B. White -- Pollen man (On Walt Disney) / St. Clair McKelway and Harold Ross -- Rugged times (On Norman Mailer) / Lillian Ross -- Lugubrious mama (On Edith Piaf) / A/.J. Leibling -- Gossip writer (On Walter Winchell) / St. Clair McKelway -- Goethe in Hollywood (On Thomas Mann) / Janet Flanner -- La France et le vieux (On Marshall Pétain) / Janet Flanner -- The hot Bach (On Duke Ellington) / Richard O. Boyer -- From within to without (On Le Corbusier) / Geoffrey T. Hellman -- The great foreigner (On Albert Einstein) / Niccolò Tucci -- The years alone (On Eleanor Roosevelt) / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- El Único Matador (On Sidney Franklin) / Lillian Ross -- pt. 5. The critics -- Notes and comments : December 12, 1948 / E.B. White -- Books : a note by Joan Acocella -- Ernest Hemingway crosses the bridge (On For whom the bell tolls) / Clifton Fadiman -- Why do people read detective stories? ; Jean-Paul Sartre : the novelist and the existentialist (On The age of reason) / Edmund Wilson -- Review of Lord Wearyʹs castle (On Robert Lowell) / Louise Bogan -- The sanctified sinner (On The heart of the matter by Graham Greene) / George Orwell -- Port and nuts with the Eliots (On ʺNotes towards the definition of cultureʺ by T.S. Eliot) / W.H. Auden -- Orwell on the future (On Nineteen eighty-four) / Lionel Trilling -- The current cinema : a note by David Denby -- The great Hildy (On His girl Friday) ; Zanuckʹs Joads (On The grapes of wrath) ; Charlieʹs Hitler (On The great dictator) ; Childe Orson (On Citizen Kane) / John Mosher -- Pre-Eisenhower (On Casablanca) ; Blood and premiums (On Double indemnity) / David Lardner -- Very rare vintage (On The lost weekend) ; None better (On The bicycle thief) / John McCarten -- The theater : a note by Hilton Als -- The boys in the back room (On The iceman cometh by Eugene OʹNeill) ; Well worth waiting for (On Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller) ; What a wonderful war (On Rodgers & Hammersteinʹs South Pacific) / Wolcott Gibbs -- Art & architecture : a note by Peter Schjeldahl -- Assorted moderns ; Georges Braque, and the American abstract artists / Robert M. Coates -- Rockefeller Center revisited ; The architecture of power / Lewis Mumford -- Musical events : a note by Alex Ross -- Copland and Shostakovich ; Current and recurrent (On Bernstein, Toscanini, and Armstrong) / Robert A. Simon -- In the hills (On Tanglewood) ; May Day at Loxford (On Benjamin Britten) / Philip Hamburger -- The violin and Szigeti / Winthrop Sargeant -- Feminine fashions : a note by Judith Thurman -- On the retail customer ; On ready-to-wear clothes ; On American milliners ; On French fashion ; On college clothes / Lois Long -- pt. 6. Poetry -- A note by Dan Chiasson -- Home song / E.B. White -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- The ritualists / William Carlos Williams -- Night journey / Theodore Roethke -- Barroom matins / Louis MacNeice -- The end of the world / Malcolm Cowley -- The blind sheep / Randall Jarrell -- The lovers / Conrad Aiken -- Sunday-morning prophecy / Langston Hughes -- A poet speaks from the visitorʹs gallery / Archibald MacLeish -- A hundred minnows / Mark Van Doren -- The triumph of education / Howard Nemerov -- At the fishhouses / Elizabeth Bishop -- Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees -- Awaking / Stephen Spender -- At yearsend / Richard Wilbur -- What I know about life / Ogden Nash -- The bight / Elizabeth Bishop -- Song for the last act / Louise Bogan -- pt. 7. Fiction -- A note by Zadie Smith -- The second tree from the corner / E.B. White -- The jockey / Carson McCullers -- Graven image / John OʹHara -- The patterns of love / William Maxwell -- Act of faith / Irwin Shaw -- The enormous radio / John Cheever -- My Da / Frank OʹConnor -- The mysteries of life in an orderly manner / Jessamyn West -- Symbols and signs / Vladimir Nabokov -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The beginning of a story / Elizabeth Taylor -- The ladder / V.S. Pritchett

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xvii, 696 pages

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