Dreaming in French : the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis / Alice Kaplan.

Author/creator Kaplan, Alice Yaeger
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Descriptionx, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994--Homes and haunts. --France. --Paris.
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004--Homes and haunts. --France. --Paris.
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944---Homes and haunts. --France. --Paris.
Women--United States. --Biography.
Students, Foreign--France. --Paris. --Biography.
Women--United States. --Intellectual life.
United States--Civilization. --French influences.

Contents Dream year -- Jacqueline Bouvier: 1949-1950 -- Jacqueline Bouvier: the return -- Susan Sontag: 1957-1958 -- Susan Sontag: the return -- Angela Yvonne Davis: 1963-1964 -- Angela Davis: the return.
Abstract A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011026598
ISBN9780226424385 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226424383 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40020695855

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1412 .K37 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold