He loves big things, and he especially wants a big, big Christmas tree. In her picture book debut, Minnesota-born Harlow introduces us to a little boy who feels small in the big city. "The Biggest Little Boy" by CNN anchor Poppy Harlow, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Viking, $17.99) As in all her books, Brett fills every page with illustrations so lush and detailed it will take hours of bedtime fun to identify every creature. Brett, who loves snowy landscapes, sets the story in 19th-century Russia, with animal musicians, hedgehogs doing the Dance of the Flowers, and Marie riding in a sleigh drawn by reindeer musicians. Hoffmann's 1816 story of a girl on the cusp of womanhood and her dream of a Prince. "Jan Brett's the Nutcracker" (Putnam, $18.99)įans of Jan Brett will not be disappointed in her beautiful retelling of E.T.A. In the end, the girl has bright yellow mittens and Sheep has a sunny yellow hat. a neat, complete buzz cut." The girl cleans and cards the fleece and spins it into yarn, dyes it and learns to knit, always with Sheep by her side creating havoc. In this delightful book, half "how-to" and half story, a girl shows us the 18 steps to creating mittens, from keeping her friend, Sheep, warm during the winter, then giving Sheep ". With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.This isn't exactly a Christmas book, but mittens are often a holiday gift so, we'll include St. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America’s once-despised culture had become respected and adored.
Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg’s friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin’s transformation into a Civil Rights spokesman, Susan Sontag’s challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of “freedom” applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s residencies at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense―economic and political, artistic and personal. The Cold War was not just a contest of power.
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