American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

by Claudia Roth Pierpont

Book Overview

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age.

Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374104409
• ISBN13: 9780374104405
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"