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Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich's America

Red Vienna, White Socialism, and the Blues: Ann Tizia Leitich's America

McFarland, Rob

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 168

Literary CriticismAustrian & Hungarian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1571139362
ISBN13: 9781571139368
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Published: Oct 22 2015
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Reveals Ann Tizia Leitich, American correspondent for Austrian newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, as an important cultural mediator between the two countries.

After the First World War, Vienna was overrun by jazz, Hollywood movies, and Fordism; its citizens were both fascinated and appalled by the waves of American ideas and products. To make sense of the American phenomenon, readers turned to Ann Tizia Leitich, the New York-based correspondent for Vienna's prominent daily Neue Freie Presse and other newspapers. Rob McFarland tells the story of Leitich's escape, occasioned by a personal crisis, from Austria to America in 1921, and of her rise as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist. By the early 1930s, she had met President Coolidge, Senator Sol Bloom, the writer Upton Sinclair, and the critic H. L. Mencken. Her devotedreaders - including the novelist Stefan Zweig and the Austrian chancellor Ignatz Seipl - sought in her witty, insightful descriptions of the United States some American vitality to invigorate their own moribund culture and economy. Chronicling Leitich's career as a journalist, cultural historian, and novelist and providing close readings of her writings about America, this book reveals her as an important cultural mediator between Austria and America.

Rob McFarland is Associate Professor of German at Brigham Young University.

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