by Stanley Karnow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780812931372
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«Paris in the Fifties» is the historical essay by Stanley Karnow, published by Crown in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Karnow arrived in France in 1947 and ended up staying ten years, first as a student and then as a Time correspondent. In this book he combines personal memoir and historical chronicle to portray the Paris of the fifties: postwar recovery, political turmoil, haute couture and intellectual salons.
The book originally appeared in 1997 and includes illustrations by Annette Karnow.
For readers of contemporary history and postwar memoirs, with a special interest in mid-twentieth-century Paris.
Stanley Abram Karnow was an American journalist and historian. He is best known for his writings on East Asia and the Vietnam War.
