Darlinghissima

These letters to a friend, beginning in the 1940s cover: the dynamics between the USA and Europe after the war; the effects of McCarthyism, the social revolutions of the 1960s; the end of Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.

For 50 years, from 1925-1975, Janet Flanner wrote her letter from Paris for the New Yorker magazine. American by birth and European in outlook, her authoritative observations on European cultural, social and political life made her one of the most respected journalists of her day. Through hundreds of letters she wrote to her intimate friend, Natalia Danesi Murray, the witty and tender spirit behind her impersonal style emerges in correspondence between two women from two different cultures, living on two continents, yet entirely devoted to each other. Beginning in the 1940s, these letters cover an extraordinary period: post-war Europe; McCarthyism in the US; the social revolutions of the 1960s; the end of Vietnam; the Watergate scandal and much more.