A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era 
The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the 1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs, Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village's underground gay scene. New York City was a hotbed of vice as well as creativity, and Van Vechten was at the center of it all. Edward White's biography―the first comprehensive biography of Carl Van Vechten in nearly half a century, and the first to fully explore Van Vechten's tangled relationship to race and sexuality―depicts a controversial figure who defined an age. Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance whose bestselling novel―and especially its title―infuriated many of the same African-American artists he championed. Van Vechten's defense of what many Americans considered bad taste―modernist literature, African-American culture, and sexual self-expression―created a popular appetite for these quintessential elements of American art. The Tastemaker encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was such a central part. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste helped make America fully modern.

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America

Biographies & Memoirs

White, Edward

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the 1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs, Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village's underground gay scene. New York City was a hotbed of vice as well as creativity, and Van Vechten was at the center of it all.Edward White's biography―the first comprehensive biography of Carl Van Vechten in nearly half a century, and the first to fully explore Van Vechten's tangled relationship to race and sexuality―depicts a controversial figure who defined an age. Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance whose bestselling novel―and especially its title―infuriated many of the same African-American artists he championed. Van Vechten's defense of what many Americans considered bad taste―modernist literature, African-American culture, and sexual self-expression―created a popular appetite for these quintessential elements of American art. The Tastemaker encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was such a central part. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste helped make America fully modern.

Life In Christ: A Study Of The Scripture Doctrine On The Nature Of Man, The Object Of The Divine Incarnation And The Conditions Of Human Immortality

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Kessinger Publishing

llustrating a full range of routine and special radiographic views for disorders of the musculoskeletal system, this new reference clearly shows how to obtain superior plain film radiographs. The book is organized by anatomy and clinical concern, with 275 special views covering positioning, equipment, and guidelines for avoiding commonly encountered technical problems. Photographs demonstrate correct patient postioning from various angles, and corresponding radiographs identify a properly positioned patient.
Practical and comprehensive, this is a key resource and teaching tool for orthopaedic surgeons, residents, and radiologists.

Orthopaedist's Guide to Plain Film Imaging

Medical Books

Burke, Michelle

Pavlov, Helene

Giesa, Mary

Seager, Kathleen

Allied Health Professions

Thieme

Former secret service agent turned mercenary, Herve Jaubert's specialty is rescuing high-profile escape victims. Hired by Princess Latifa to liberate her from Dubai, Jaubert never anticipated sabotage or that the escape could go so disastrously wrong. The Princess is on the run. His boat is under attack, and so too is his reputation, but he's survived much worse than this.When he's inexplicably freed following allegations of kidnap, Jaubert suspects his position was leaked. And an insider mole tells him he was right. He has evidence that a power greater than the Emirati hit mob was behind the attack that ruined Princess Latifa's bid for freedom.The next move in a global cat-and-mouse game of political high-stakes is up to them. Fueled by revenge and an obsession to clear his name, Jaubert has only one mission: to destroy a growing conspiracy and bring those who attacked him and Latifa to justice.

Princess Latifa and the Spy

Jaubert, Herve

True Crime

Independently published

The extinction of evil: three theological essays

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Extinction of Evil: Three Theological Essays

Petacel, E.

Oliphant, Charles H.

History

BiblioLife

Immortality, a clerical symposium on what are the foundations of the belief in the immortality of ma

Knox-Littel, William John

Row, Charles Adolfus

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