American rhapsody
Subtitle: writers, musicians, movie stars, and one great building
By: Claudia Roth Pierpont
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780374104405
Subjects: Performing arts; American Authors; Popular culture; Biography
Other titles: New Yorker.
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Incisive biographical profiles of some of the most iconic American artists and creations of the twentieth century"--
Notes: The majority of essays were previously published in The New Yorker.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cries and Whispers: Edith Wharton; title: For Love and Money: F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: Behind the Mask: Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit; title: Jazzbo: George Gershwin; title: The Silver Spire: The Chrysler Building; title: Tough Guy: Dashiell Hammett; title: The Collector: Peggy Guggenheim; title: Born For The Part: Katharine Hepburn; title: The Player Kings: Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier; title: Method Man: Marlon Brando; title: Another Country: James Baldwin; title: A Raised Voice: Nina Simone.