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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780812931372
Years before winning the Pulitzer Prize for his definitive
history of the Vietnam War, Vietnam: A History, Stanley
Karnow lived in Paris as a young reporter. The man who was later to
be renowned for his thorough research and crisp prose had to begin
somewhere, and Karnow had the incredible good fortune to make his
way as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine in the
1950s. His original dispatches to Time‘s New York office
make up a majority of Paris in the Fifties.
By simply calling this collection Paris in the Fifties,
however, Karnow has done himself a great injustice. His treatise on
the City of Light is more a biography of a city and its culture
than it is a mere look at a time and place. Ever wonder where the
modern-day restaurant had its origin, or what happened to the
French aristocracy after the ravages of the Revolution, or even how
the French maintain their status at the forefront of culture–be it
food, wine, art, or fashion? Karnow provides the answers and then
some. His de*ions are as rich as they are comprehensive, all
the while depicting how the French savoir vivre–the zest
for life that Paris symbolizes for all of us–withstood the horrors
of World War II and the destabilization of society as everyone knew
it. This wonderful book is reassurance that no matter what modern
threats to culture may come, toujours Paris: we’ll always
have Paris. And that is true comfort to any expatriate at heart.
–Courtenay Kehn
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. By the
time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French
colleagues dubbed him “le plus parisien des Américains” –the most
Parisian American.
Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and
wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came
to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the
life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet
even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle
to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the
mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion,
and romance.
Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafés
and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious
ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de
Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-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 André Malraux, and visit the glittering salons
where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy
novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and
actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of
haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France’s leading gourmet, who
taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute
cuisine. Karnow takes us to marathon murder trials in musty
courtrooms, accompanies a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a
tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and recalls the famous automobile
race at Le Mans when a catastrophic accident killed more than
eighty spectators. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting
celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey
Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too.
A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and
delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the
world.
Preface
1. Pourquoi Paris
2. En Famille
3. Grope Journalism
4. Le Monde
5. Names Malke News
6. The Prince of Gastronomes
7. In Deepest Beaujolais
8. Crime and Justice
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