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Information från den engelska sidan med allmänna fakta. Redigera om du vill anpassa till ditt språk. Silly of me to blame it on dates, but so it happened to be. Dammit, it was the Twenties, and we had to be smarty. - Dorothy Parker Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin P Adams No essence can be measured by a yardstick. - Heywood Broun Restraint is required to keep from being annoyed by queries as to what has become of the Round Table. What became of the reservoir at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street? These things do not last forever. - Frank Case, owner, 1938 It seems to me not unfair to say that America leads the world in hypocrisy, and always has, despite the sharpest, kind of competition from Great Britain. - Heywood Broun When I was born I owed twelve dollars. - George S. Kaufman I don't understand the principle of the radio. Nor for that matter the telephone or the telegraph. Don't explain it to me; I don't get it. - Franklin P. Adams That piece is worth coming back to work for. It will turn out to be a memorable one, or I am a fish. - Harold Ross Donald Ogden Stewart called Robert Benchley a typical man about town because "At 1 a.m. you can find Bob sitting at '21', at 5 p.m. you can find Bob sitting at '21', and at midnight you can find Bob sitting at '21'." Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made. The dead have no right to lay their clammy fingers upon the living. - Edna Ferber | |
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The book does have a few glaring flaws. One, it is unnecessarily repetitive. How many times do we need to hear the same information about Harold Ross and Jane Grant’s marriage? (I lost count after four!) Two, it is one of those innumerable books written about 19th and 20th century people from the pen of someone with an inflated sense of 21st century superiority. (Eye roll.) And, finally, the author’s credentials as an authority on the subject are negligible.
The bio on the back cover describes the author as an “independent historian”…I have no clue what that actually means. Is it simply a professional historian who has no official institutional affiliation? Or, is it—as I suspect—a euphemism for an uneducated, unqualified not-really-a-historian? Given the rest of the biographical information provided, it seems to be a case of the latter; this is someone who just fancies himself a historian because the label sounds more impressive & trustworthy than plain ‘Dorothy Parker enthusiast & tour operator’.
Overall, this book offers a worthwhile glimpse at the Algonquin Round Table and Jazz Age New York that will appeal widely to general audiences. However, it should not be considered as an authoritative text for serious academic research or source material. ( )