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Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues

By Rob Mcfarland

Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues Contemporary literature

Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues

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After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens were both fascinated and appalled by the waves of American ideas and products. To make sense of the American phenomenon, readers turned to Ann Tizia Leitich, the New York-based correspondent for Vienna's prominent daily Neue Freie Presse and other newspapers. Rob McFarland tells the story of Leitich's escape, occasioned by a personal crisis, from Austria to America in 1921, and of her rise as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist. By the early 1930s, she had met President Coolidge, Senator Sol Bloom, the writer Upton Sinclair, and the critic H. L. Mencken. Her devoted readers - including the novelist Stefan Zweig and the Austrian chancellor Ignatz Seipl - sought in her witty, insightful descriptions of the United States some American vitality to invigorate their own moribund culture and economy. Chronicling Leitich's career as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist and providing close readings of her writings about America, this book reveals her as an important cultural mediator between Austria and America. ~~~~ ROB McFARLAND is Associate Professor of German at Brigham Young University.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2015-10-22
Publication Date:
2015-10-22
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571139362
ISBN13:
9781571139368
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
521 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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