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Jul 14, 1975 · Ragtime is a great billiard game of events, ideas and personages at the turn of the century, where the real protagonist is America herself captured in the last gasps of complacency and social Darwinism—waging territorial wars abroad for God, Country and Mammon, breaking strikes and throwing charity balls at home while WW I hovers in the wings.
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Book Review: 'Ragtime' . L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” is a highly original experiment in historical fiction. But the first thing to be said about it is that it works. Why do these...
Jun 12, 1975 · An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family.
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Mar 5, 2015 · This week, we look back to a 1975 Tribune review of the first novel to win the NBCC Award: E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime.” Some otherwise astute musical academicians still dismiss ragtime as ...
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An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home of an affluent American family.
Aug 17, 2022 · “Ragtime” remains elegantly, compulsively readable; some of what made it so audacious nearly 50 years ago seems less so now, and some only more.
Jan 9, 2021 · “The Light Eaters,” a new book by Zoë Schlanger, looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
