1913: The Year Before the Storm

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1913: The Year Before the Storm

An International Bestseller

â€œAn absolute gem of a book.â€ â€”The Observer

Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth centuryâ€™s most exciting year .â€†.â€†.

It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wroteÂ The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented.

It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I.

In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafkaâ€™s love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in â€œone yearâ€ histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology .â€†.â€†. even as ominous storm clouds began to gather.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Florian Illies
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781612193526
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Melville House
Manufacturer	Melville House
NumberOfPages	277
PublicationDate	2013-10-29
Publisher	Melville House
ReleaseDate	2013-10-29
Studio	Melville House

1913: The Year Before the Storm

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