In the mid-twentieth century, New York City was booming. An economic powerhouse and a major site of artistic innovation, it attracted a new generation of immigrants from Europe, as the worlds of Wall Street, theater, radio, and journalism flourished. Join David Reid, author of The Brazen Age: New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia (Pantheon, 2016) and distinguished historian Thomas Bender for a conversation about the intersection of politics, art, and economics during this frenzied but dynamic period in our city’s history.

-Thomas Bender is an intellectual and cultural historian whose many books include New York Intellect, The Unfinished City, and A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History. He is Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.
– David Reid is editor of Sex, Death and God in 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, Los Angeles Times Book Review, and in various anthologies, including Pushcart Prize.

Book signing and reception to follow!