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David Reid

Biography

David Reid

David Reid is the editor of SEX, DEATH AND GOD L.A. and co-editor of WEST OF THE WEST: Imagining California. His essays, articles, reviews and interviews have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and in several anthologies, including THE PUSHCART PRIZE XII. He lives in Berkeley, California.

David Reid

Books by David Reid

The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia
by David Reid - History, Nonfiction

A sweeping and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, THE BRAZEN AGE opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity, a city boasting an unprecedented and unique synthesis of genius, ambition and the avant-garde. While concentrating on those five years, David Reid also reaches back to the turn of the 20th century to explore the city’s progressive politics, radical artistic experimentation and burgeoning bohemia.