Today is Tuesday Jul 5th, 2011
Tuesday Jul 5th, 2011
A Paris invented for the American imagination
By Brooke Blower
Thanks to Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris and David McCullough’s book The Greater Journey, summer crowds are again satisfying their appetite for that guilty pleasure: the Americans-in-Paris romp. Such celebrations of the adventures of Americans in the City of Lights are certainly fun. But they evoke a version of the city that’s rooted as much in fantasy as fact. Like many read more »
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