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In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win

the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest

historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France,

planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as

a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the

time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French

colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains" --the most

Parisian American.

Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and

wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came

to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the

life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet

even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle

to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the

mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion,

and romance.

Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafés

and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious

ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de

Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-France, as well as Communist hacks and the

demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious

intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,

Albert Camus, and André Malraux, and visit the glittering salons

where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy

novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and

actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of

haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France's leading gourmet, who

taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute

cuisine. Karnow takes us to marathon murder trials in musty

courtrooms, accompanies a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a

tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and recalls the famous automobile

race at Le Mans when a catastrophic accident killed more than

eighty spectators. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting

celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey

Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too.

A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and

delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the

world.

Preface

1. Pourquoi Paris

2. En Famille

3. Grope Journalism

4. Le Monde

5. Names Malke News

6. The Prince of Gastronomes

7. In Deepest Beaujolais

8. Crime and Justice

……

Stanley Karnow is the author of, among other books, the

bestselling Vietnam: A History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In

Our Image: America and the Philippines. He lives outside of

Washington, D.C.

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Years before winning the Pulitzer Prize for his definitive

history of the Vietnam War, Vietnam: A History, Stanley

Karnow lived in Paris as a young reporter. The man who was later to

be renowned for his thorough research and crisp prose had to begin

somewhere, and Karnow had the incredible good fortune to make his

way as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine in the

1950s. His original dispatches to Time's New York office

make up a majority of Paris in the Fifties.

By simply calling this collection Paris in the Fifties,

however, Karnow has done himself a great injustice. His treatise on

the City of Light is more a biography of a city and its culture

than it is a mere look at a time and place. Ever wonder where the

modern-day restaurant had its origin, or what happened to the

French aristocracy after the ravages of the Revolution, or even how

the French maintain their status at the forefront of culture--be it

food, wine, art, or fashion? Karnow provides the answers and then

some. His de*ions are as rich as they are comprehensive, all

the while depicting how the French savoir vivre--the zest

for life that Paris symbolizes for all of us--withstood the horrors

of World War II and the destabilization of society as everyone knew

it. This wonderful book is reassurance that no matter what modern

threats to culture may come, toujours Paris: we'll always

have Paris. And that is true comfort to any expatriate at heart.

--Courtenay Kehn

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In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains" --the most Parisian American.

Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion, and romance.

Paris in the Fifties transports us to Latin Quarter cafés and basement jazz clubs, to unheated apartments and glorious ballrooms. We meet such prominent political figures as Charles de Gaulle and Pierre Mendès-France, as well as Communist hacks and the demagogic tax rebel Pierre Poujade. We get to know illustrious intellectuals, among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and André Malraux, and visit the glittering salons where aristocrats with exquisite manners mingled with trendy novelists, poets, critics, artists, composers, playwrights, and actors. We meet Christian Dior, who taught Karnow the secrets of haute couture, and Prince Curnonsky, France's leading gourmet, who taught the young reporter to appreciate the complexities of haute cuisine. Karnow takes us to marathon murder trials in musty courtrooms, accompanies a group of tipsy wine connoisseurs on a tour of the Beaujolais vineyards, and recalls the famous automobile race at Le Mans when a catastrophic accident killed more than eighty spectators. Back in Paris, Karnow hung out with visiting celebrities like Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, and Audrey Hepburn, and in Paris in the Fifties we meet them too.

A veteran reporter and historian, Karnow has written a vivid and delightful history of a charmed decade in the greatest city in the world.