Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula is a narrative history of the Dada movement, its birth in Zürich, Switzerland during World War I, its rapid spread and sudden decline throughout Europe, and the political and cultural legacy it left behind.^[1][2][3]

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• Codrescu, Andrei (June 25, 2015). "Review: Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
• Beals, K. (2016). "Review of the book Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, by Jed Rasula". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (2): 473–475. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0038. S2CID 148365456.

• Hardcover: June 2, 2015 (First Edition), Basic Books, 384pp. ISBN 978-0465089963.

Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia.^[4][5]

• Jed Rasula on Dada, University of Pennsylvania