When Broadway Was the Runway Todd Gitlin has written a magisterial and

has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers

and suggests policies and practices by which the United States and its allies might contribute to the consolidation of peace in the region

and Gershom Scholem

and the Middle East

73rd National Jewish Book Awards Finalist

When Broadway Was the Runway Todd Gitlin has written a magisterial andSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater impresarios captured the imagination of their largely