The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village [Paperback]

Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh'sThe Villageis the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood.
 
From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives ofThe Villagetell the story of America itself.
 
Illustrated with historic black-and-white photographs,The Villagefeatures lively, well-researched profiles of many of the people who made Greenwich Village famous, including Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mark Twain, Margaret Sanger, Eugene O’Neill, Marcel Duchamp, Upton Sinclair, Willa Cather, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Jackson Pollock, Anais Nin, Edward Albee, Charlie Parker, W. H. Auden, Woody Guthrie, James Baldwin, Maurice Sendak, E. E. Cummings, and Bob Dylan.

The brilliantly lively, anecdotal biography of Greenwich Village, infamous and prodigiously influential, from the 1600s to the present

The very best kind of cultural history: Literate, lucid, erudite, and entertaining. -Michael Lesy, author of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties

A great, sprawling saga of genius and vice in New York Citys Greenwich Village. John Strausbaugh captures Bohemia at its best and level worst, reminding us why we love this place. His account is breathtaking. -Teresa Carpenter, bestselling author of New York Diaries

Strausbaugh has produced the definitive history of Americas bohemian wellspring and prototypical modern neighborhood with all the verve and fun and rigor it deserves. -Kurt Andersen, bestselling author of True Believers and Heyday

An engaging, scholarly, and vivid evocation of a neighborhood thats been, seen, and done everything and everyonl#3