New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.
TheaterMania.com | The Civilians, Jennifer Miller, SITI Company, Ivo van Hove Set for BAM's 2012 ... TheaterMania.com ... a continuous, five-hour performance comprising Shakespeare's three Roman tragedies: Julius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus (November 16-18); and the New York premiere of John Cale's Paris 1919, along with Life Along the Borderline: A ... and more » |
A new Velvet Underground book misses the mark Montreal Gazette (blog) (Try Paris 1919 and Fragments of a Rainy Season and see if you don't agree, and read Cale's remarkable autobiography What's Welsh For Zen for a whole different view on the Velvets' roots, life and legacy.) Editing is a problem too. |
