Rosemary Wakeman
The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958.
The University of Chicago Press, 2009. First printing. 9780226870236 401 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gilt-lettered quarter red cloth and black paper boards. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"Presents an account of the fate of Paris' public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris' public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and '50s, this book instead finds that the city's streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle."