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MADAM : The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age Debby Applegate 1st
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- Estado
- Como nuevo
- Notas del vendedor
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- BIOGRAPHY
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780385534758
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385534752
ISBN-13
9780385534758
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050071417
Product Key Features
Book Title
Madam : the Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Women, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
34.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2021-037112
Reviews
" Madam , Debby Applegate's tour de force about Jazz Age icon Polly Adler, will seize you by the lapels, buy you a drink, and keep you reading until the very last page. Applegate's brilliant research and cinematic prose made me feel I was peering over Adler's shoulder, watching her drift through the parlor of her brownstone establishment, wisecracking with the Mob and paying off the cops. Madam is a judicious exploration of the dark side of the American Dream, and Applegate is a lively and knowledgeable guide. A treat for fiction and nonfiction fans alike." -- Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park "A vividly detailed social history of Manhattan's netherworld, peopled by gangsters and bootleggers, bookies and racketeers, corrupt policemen and politicians, and a seemingly endless stream of 'working girls.'. . . An animated, entertaining history." -- Kirkus Reviews "'[Polly Adler's] wit and charm made her America's most famous queen of vice in the Roaring Twenties--and roar they do in Debby Applegate's fascinating new biography. From Russia's Pale of Settlement to the Broadway underworld to Hollywood Boulevard, we keep company with Dutch Schultz, the Algonquin Round Table, cops, gamblers, politicians, and Walter Winchell as we follow Adler through her improbable career. Madam rollicks like no biography has rollicked before." --T.J. Stiles, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The First Tycoon and Custer's Trials
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.742092
Synopsis
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America . "A fast-paced tale of ... Polly's many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip.... A breathless tale told through extraordinary research." -- The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld--and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
LC Classification Number
HQ146.N7A67 2021
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