Yaddo: Making American Culture

Edited by Micki McGee

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Paper, 184 pages, 125 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14737-8
$29.95 / £19.95

November, 2008
Cloth, 184 pages, 125 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14736-1
$90.00 / £62.00

Foreword, by David S. Ferriero and Elaina Richardson

Preface

1. Creative Power: Yaddo and the Making of American Culture, by Micki McGee

2. Refuge and Crucible: Newton Arvin’s Yaddo, by Barry Werth

3. The Trailblazer: Aaron Copland and the Festivals of American Music, by Tim Page

4. In Good Company: Visual Artists at Yaddo, by Karl E. Willers

5. The Ghosts of Yaddo: What They Taught, by Allan Gurganus

6. Living with Artists Is More Fun, by Helen Vendler

7. The Longest Stay: Agnes Smedley, Yaddo, and the "Lowell Affair", by Ruth Price

8. Writ in Water: The Rise and Fall of Literary Reputations, by David Gates

9. Crème de la Crème: Highbrows, Lowbrows, Voracious Omnivores, High, Low, and Hi-Lo, by Marcelle Clements

Note on the Trasks and the Founding of Yaddo

Yaddo Timeline, 1874–1980

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Illustration Credits

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Literature

About the Author

Micki McGee is a sociologist and cultural critic on the faculty of Fordham University and the curator of the exhibition Yaddo: Making American Culture at the New York Public Library. Formerly a faculty fellow at New York University, she is also the author of Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life.

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