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Paris in the fifties

In July 1947, fresh out of college Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "the most Parisian American." Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafes and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet illustrious intellectuals, go to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompany a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and attend an automobile race at Le Mans.

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  • "In July 1947, fresh out of college Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "the most Parisian American." Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafes and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet illustrious intellectuals, go to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompany a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and attend an automobile race at Le Mans."
  • "In July 1947, fresh out of college Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "the most Parisian American." Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafes and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet illustrious intellectuals, go to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompany a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and attend an automobile race at Le Mans."@en
  • "A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the world."@en
  • "Karnow reflects on his years in Paris, begins with his days as a GI Bill student to his tenure at "Time," discusses his career as a correspondent, friendships, and Parisian social, cultural, and intellectual life."
  • "Karnow reflects on his years in Paris, begins with his days as a GI Bill student to his tenure at "Time," discusses his career as a correspondent, friendships, and Parisian social, cultural, and intellectual life."@en
  • "In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafes and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendes-France, as well as Communist hacks and the demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and Andre Malraux, and visit the glittering salons where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and actors."

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