{"product_id":"american-cocktail-anita-reynolds-9780674073050","title":"American Cocktail: A \"Colored Girl\" in the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Of racially mixed heritage, Anita Reynolds was proudly African American but often passed for Indian, Mexican, or Creole. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, but above all free-spirited provocateur, she was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an \"American cocktail.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the first black stars of the silent era, she appeared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended Charlie Chaplin's anarchist meetings, and studied dance with Ruth St. Denis. She moved to New York in the 1920s and made a splash with both Harlem Renaissance elites and Greenwich Village bohemians. An émigré in Paris, she fell in with the Left Bank \u003ci\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/i\u003e, befriending Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. Next, she took up residence as a journalist in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and witnessed firsthand the growing menace of fascism. In 1940, as the Nazi panzers closed in on Paris, Reynolds spent the final days before the French capitulation as a Red Cross nurse, afterward making a mad dash for Lisbon to escape on the last ship departing Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose that perfectly captures the globetrotting nonchalance of its author, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Cocktail\u003c\/i\u003e presents a stimulating, unforgettable self-portrait of a truly extraordinary woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anita Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674073053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674073050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.77w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2014 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2014 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/2014 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014 pg. 58","brand":"Anita Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925553381631,"sku":"9780674073050","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e1cf2365-9529-4a0c-ae60-977aba1ab61e.jpg?v=1681077955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-cocktail-anita-reynolds-9780674073050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}