They Were Ragtime

They Were Ragtime by Warren Forma. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardbound in Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: VG in Torn & Taped DJ. Top outside corner on half title page torn off. 245 Pgs. ISBN 0448125536. LCCN 76-23487. Stronger and stranger than any fiction, this documentary account of the breathtaking historic figures who peopled the Ragtime era floods the imagination with fresh insights into the thoughts and deeds of the people who made the America of today. With 250 authentic period photographs. J. P. Morgan. Stanford White. Evelyn Nesbit. Emma Goldman. Henry Ford. Teddy7 Roosevelt. Sigmund Freud. Mary Baker Eddy. Anthony Comstock. Havelock Ellis. Joseph Pulitzer. Harry Houdini. Admiral Peary. John Barrymore. William Randolph Hearst and many others. 1892 - 1917, this book leads you through the entire era with spellbinding detail drawn from newspaper and magazine accounts, contemporary biographers and personal memoirs. Description text copyright 2017 BooksForComfort. Item ID 32142.