Word: americana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
...created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history of that house and its publications is the year's choicest chunk of offbeat Americana, a huge, cheerful corpse from the literary morgue...
Picked by the Literary Guild as its July selection. World Enough and Time seems certain to go bounding right up the bestseller lists. Like its predecessor, it is rich with authentic Americana and bulging with violence, drama and seething characters. But it is also a strangely uneven novel which wades through all the conventional heroics and posturings of the mine-run historical novel before it finally hits its stride...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...
...Town, by Conrad Richter. Hard work and lusty humors in the building of Ohio; good fictional Americana in a novel that brings Richter's trilogy to an end with the Civil War (TIME...