Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 - Hardcover
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Philipp Blom is the author of several award-winning books, including A Wicked Company, and The Vertigo Years, which has been made into a three-part television documentary. A frequent lecturer at European and American universities, he also contributes to international newspapers and hosts a radio show on Austrian national radio. Philipp Blom lives in Vienna.
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"[An] eminently readable tome full of splendid anecdotal detail. Mr. Blom's ability to convey a mood and to synthesize complex issues, is admirable.... Anyone reading this book today in the context of our own culture of doubt will feel an immediate affinity to the anxious and even desperate celebration of life that it portrays."―Wall Street Journal
"Blom's technique is to blend transformative moments with biographical vignettes, sometimes of offbeat personalities. Experts on specific episodes can be sought out elsewhere. For the general reader, Blom delivers an orderly sense of the maelstrom of incidents and ideas with panache."―Financial Times
"A fluent, often entertaining account of the period."―New York Times
"[A] lucid appraisal of Western cultures between the wars"―New Yorker
"Compelling.... Like other good popular histories, Fracture will make the uninitiated think, and the initiated think twice."―Literary Review (UK)
"Blom's technique is to blend transformative moments with biographical vignettes, sometimes of offbeat personalities. Experts on specific episodes can be sought out elsewhere. For the general reader, Blom delivers an orderly sense of the maelstrom of incidents and ideas with panache."―Financial Times
"A fluent, often entertaining account of the period."―New York Times
"[A] lucid appraisal of Western cultures between the wars"―New Yorker
"Compelling.... Like other good popular histories, Fracture will make the uninitiated think, and the initiated think twice."―Literary Review (UK)
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- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0857892193
- ISBN 13 9780857892195
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Europe emerged from the First World War broken and traumatized, its beliefs shattered by four years of carnage. This wide-ranging history charts the social, political and intellectual climate of the age, as citizens of the West turned their energies towards the hedonism of the Jazz Age while artists, scientists and philosophers grappled with the question of how to live without certainties, and sinister new ideologies emerged from the wreckage of the old order. Seller Inventory # 506317
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