A candid dual memoir of Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan, reflecting on their 1950s New York lives and careers in publishing.
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A candid dual memoir of Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan, reflecting on their 1950s New York lives and careers in publishing.
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"Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books.
They both sought self-knowledge...
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Moderate references to sexual freedom and relationships in the 1950s context.
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Moderate focus on McCarthyism and Cold War cultural tensions.
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