Hollywood gold: Jack Lemmon and Vienna’s Billy Wilder made seven fi lms together, starting with Some Like It Hot.

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Map xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I A Viennese Education: Th e Rational and the Anti-Rational
8. The masonry of liberalism: a view of Vienna’s Ringstrasse in 1884. 8
9. 1 Growing up Viennese: An Education in Liberalism 9
10. 2 Black Vienna and the Birth of Populist Politics 53
11. Part II The Rise and Fall of Red Vienna
12. The Karl-Marx-Hof, Europe’s biggest public housing estate and an abiding symbol of Red Vienna 70
13. 3 The New Human 71
14. 4 Fresh Th inking for a New Era: Th e Birth of the Knowledge Economy 101
15. 5 The Muse Has Had Enough: Feminism and Socialism 149
16. 6 The War on Science and the End of Vienna 191
17. Part III Emigrants and Exiles
18. Hollywood gold: Jack Lemmon and Vienna’s Billy Wilder made seven fi lms together, starting with Some Like It Hot. 226
19. 7 Awake, Slumbering Giant! Th e Viennese Discover America 227
20. 8 The Balm of Muddle: Th e Viennese in Britain 253
21. 9 The World Reimagined: War Work and the Open Society 285
22. 10 Sex, Shopping and the Sovereign Consumer 315
23. 11 A Viennese Apotheosis: Th e Ascent of the Austrian School 349
24. Conclusion: The Politics of Genius versus the Empire of Critical Rationalism 382
25. Endnotes 388
26. Bibliography 412
27. Index 426