The largely untold story of Americans on the Right Bankwho outnumbered the Left Bank writers and artists by ten to oneturns out to be a fascinating one. These were mostly businessmen, manufacturers representatives, and lawyers, but also newly-minted American countesses married to dashing but cash-poor foreigners with impressive titles, though most of the women were spouses of the businessmen. Thanks to Nancy Green s superb archival research, this new cast of characters emerges with singular vitality. While Gertrude Stein, ...
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The largely untold story of Americans on the Right Bankwho outnumbered the Left Bank writers and artists by ten to oneturns out to be a fascinating one. These were mostly businessmen, manufacturers representatives, and lawyers, but also newly-minted American countesses married to dashing but cash-poor foreigners with impressive titles, though most of the women were spouses of the businessmen. Thanks to Nancy Green s superb archival research, this new cast of characters emerges with singular vitality. While Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and other writers all appear here, and do so in a new light, the focus is on the men and women who settled into the gilded ghetto of the Right Bank. Green s story of these overseas Americans is a way of internationalizing American history (it is also a way of questioning the meaning of Americanization in the 20th century). "
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