Body and soul: the making of American modernism

Art, music, and letters in the Jazz Age "A path-breaking composite portrait of the men and women who changed American culture in the Jazz Age. In a broad-based and readable account of literary, artistic and musical figures ranging from John Dos Passos to Jelly Roll Morton to Georgia O´Keeffe to Gertrude Stein, all outsiders to mainstream culture, Robert Crunden describes brilliantly the cross-currents that created american modernism