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Terrible Honesty Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Ann Douglas

A portrait of a generation describes New York's role in the defining of Western economic and political leadership in the years after the first World War and noting its pivotal part in the shaping of American culture.

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The Rubin Report

A book about Harlem in the 1920s, mentioned by Mamet to illustrate the cross-pollination of different cultures in the past, contrasting with the current lack of diversity in LA.

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She said, you have these three groups that are completely scorned and they have their own wonderful cultures, black America, gay America and Jewish America.

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A book about Harlem in the 1920s, mentioned by Mamet to illustrate the cross-pollination of different cultures in the past, contrasting with the current lack of diversity in LA.

"

She said, you have these three groups that are completely scorned and they have their own wonderful cultures, black America, gay America and Jewish America.

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