THE BRAZEN AGE

A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelts campaign tour through the citys boroughs in 1944. He wo uld see little of what made New York the capital of modernitythough the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatara city boasting an unprecedented and unique synthesis of genius, ambition, and the avant-garde. While concentrating on those five years, David Reid also reache...[Read more]