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“An ingenious idea brilliantly realized: a book
crammed with fresh and entertaining information— incidentally reminds us that, over two centuries at least, there have been innumerable firm trans-Atlantic
friendships unshaken be the periodic storm of
‘Anglo-American’ relations. ” . . . Alistair Cooke

 

Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire on
the roof of the Savoy Hotel, 1923
(see page 239)
Americans in London describes
street-by-street the homes, clubs, and favorite pubs
of more than 250
Americans in London
from 1770 to yesterday.

You'll read about:
Benjamin Franklin spending his last day on Craven Street with Joseph Priestley
Benedict Arnold in exile in wealthy Gloucester Place
Thomas Jefferson, disliking the English, unhappy in Golden Square
James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde
Tallulah Bankhead in her Bentley “tooling down Piccadilly, the prime minister by my side”
Tennessee Williams and the opening of “The Glass Menagerie”
Sylvia Plath’s last, dark days on Fitzroy Road . . . and many more

Americans in London, by Brian N. Morton
ISBN 0-688-06555-4 Paper $12.95 Order Americans in London

Go to: Americans in Paris or D-Day on the Normandy Beaches or The Cháteaux of the Loire Valley

 

Fred and Adele