Ragtime Resources
Websites
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Wanna read more E.L. Doctorow or learn more about him? Why not check out his website?
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Find out more about the greatest escape artist ever. He puts the cast of Escape From Alcatraz to shame.
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You've read the book, now see the play! Don't worry, they made it more family-friendly.
Movie or TV Productions
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Info on the film made from the book.
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PBS did a special about Evelyn Nesbit and the murder of Stanford White. It's full of juicy turn of the century gossip.
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PBS special about what America was like in the year 1900, featuring many of the characters from the novel.
Articles and Interviews
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There's some debate about whether Peary was the first to the Pole. Nothing hotter than a debate about frozen Arctic explorers.
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Oddly enough, Emma Goldman came to his lectures, something that's not in Ragtime. C'mon Doctorow: that would have been an awesome scene.
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A good article for getting to know J.P. Morgan (at least in his Ragtime-era incarnation).
Video
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Check out what the movie looked like: the voiceover is booming and awesome.
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See the woman that inspired the crime of the century, and became the first sex symbol.
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Just imagine it's Coalhouse playing.
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The film series that Tateh is inspired to create at the end of Ragtime
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Here's the opening number, in all its jangling piano glory.
Audio
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See the photos Jacob Riis took of immigrants and hear a story about it.
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Hear a speech by William Howard Taft.
Images
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See the painter mentioned throughout Ragtime
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The Charles Dana Gibson image of Evelyn Nesbit that Younger Brother has on his wall, plus more images of America's first sex symbol.