| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Ronald Weber. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light between the Wars. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 2006. Pp. 333. $27.50.

In this work, Ronald Weber evokes a place and a time: Paris between World Wars I and II, when it became a haven for American expatriates, particularly those with literary or artistic aspirations. Prohibition made the United States a less-than-accommodating environment; the favorable exchange rate made Paris an inexpensive place to live. Many who came tended to be dismissive of American culture, as Harold Stearns who in the preface of his collection Civilization in the United States (1922) urged young people to abandon what he called "the emotional and aesthetic wasteland of American life" (p. 110). The sense that Paris was where it was happening lured such figures as Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Thurber. Whatever their ultimate ambitions, for many, the immediate objective was, as Al Laney put it, "To be on a newspaper published in Paris in times such as these, and to be young and in revolt was all that the heart could wish" (Al Laney, The Paris Herald: The Incredible Newspaper [1947], p. 11). Their duties were often mundane, their pay meager, but they got by. And they became part of a supportive social and professional network providing assistance and contacts to one another.

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