Bibliography/further reading

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Histories, Biographies, Literary/Cultural Studies, including Theoretical Models

Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin.  Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1999.

Berman, Marshall. On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. New York: Verso, 2006.

Blair, Sara. How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2019.

Burns, Eric. 1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar. New York: Pegasus Books, 2015.

Chauncey, George. Gay New York. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Doane, Mary Ann.  Babel & Babylon.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: The Noonday Press, 1995.

Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Gonzalez, Evelyn. The Bronx. ew York: Columbia UP, 2007.

Hammill, Faye. Women, Celebrity and Literary Culture Between the Wars. Austin: U of Texas P, 2007.

Jackson, Kenneth and David S. Dunbar, Ed. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. New York: Columbia UP: 2005.

Jaslit, Jenna Weissman. Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

Marshik, Celia. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014.

Meade, Marion. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wilde in the Twenties. Orlando: Harvest, 2005.

Miller, Donald L. Supreme City. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.

Mushabac, Jane, and Angela Wigan. A Short and Remarkable History of New York. New York: Fordham UP, 1999.

Rainey, Lawrence.  Institutions of Modernism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1998.

Remeseira, Claudio Ivan, Ed. Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook. New York: Columbia UP, 2010.

Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and Its People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

Ryan, Hugh. When Brooklyn Was Queer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

Stout, Glenn. The Selling of the Babe. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 2016.

Susman, Warren I. Culture as History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1973.

Wallace, Mike. Greater Gotham: New York City from 1898 to 1919.  New York: Oxford UP, 2017.

Walsh, Kevin. Forgotten Queens. New York: Arcadia Publishing, 2013.

Literary Works

DuBois, W.E.B. Darkwaters: Voices from within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1920.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. 1920. New York: Scribners, 2003.

Garvey, Marcus. Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey. Mineola: Dover Thrift Editions, 2004.

Hurst, Fanny. Humoresques. New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1920.

O'Neill, Eugene. “The Emperor Jones.” Complete Plays 1920-1931. New York: Library of America, 1988.

Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. 1920. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Memoirs and Biographies

Benstock, Shari. No Gifts From Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton. New York: Scribner's, 1995.

Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage, 1975.

Dearborn, Mary V. Queen of Bohemia: the Life of Louise Bryant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996.

Grant, Colin. Negro With a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.

Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: Owl Books, 2000.

Parker, Dorothy. Dorothy Parker In Her Own Words. Barry Day, Ed. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2004.

Pietrusza, David. Rothstein. New York: basic Books, 2003.

Vega, Bernardo. Memoirs of Bernardo Vega. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1988.

Miscellany

Bureau of the Census. 14th Census of Population. New York. Bountiful, Utah: American Genealogical Lending Library. Microfilm.

People's Freedom Union. “The Lusk Committee: a Report On the Activities of the Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities In the State of New York.” (New York, 1920)

Ruppert, Jacob. Illustrated catalogue of the complete writings of distinguished American, English and French authors in finely bound library editions, the magnificent library of Colonel Jacob Ruppert of New York city: to be sold without reserve or restriction. New York, Lent & Graff co., 1920.