An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the Shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century Their names are iconic: Eugene O\'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius--the list goes on and on.
Welcome to the party!.
This is their story.
Together they found a community as they created some of the great works of the American Century.
The Shores of Bohemia records a great set of shifts in American culture and the ideas and arguments fueled by drink, infidelity, and competition that made for a fifty-year conversation among intellectual leaders and creative revolutionaries.
John Taylor Ike Williams, who married into the Cape\'s artistic world and has spent half a century talking about and walking along its Shores with these cultural and political luminaries, renders the twisting lives and careers of a generation of staggering American thinkers and creators.
At the end of their era, in the 1960s, as the postwar economy boomed, they took shelter in liberalism when the anticapitalist movement fragmented into other causes.
They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s.
They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor.
They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools.
They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism.
Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation\'s workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod.
An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the Shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century Their names are iconic: Eugene O\'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius--the list goes on and on
