Madam : : the Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
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Call Number: 921 Adler, Polly, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Adler, Polly
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From a nobody to a legend -- Man plans, god laughs -- The jazz baby -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? -- Liquor and lust -- Thumbs up with the mob -- The double standard -- The party girl racket -- The underworld complex -- The Jewish jezebel -- The female Al Capone -- Café society -- The big shot -- Madam emeritus.
"A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 553 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385534758
0385534752
SUBJECTS
Adler, Polly, -- 1900-1962.
Procuresses -- New York -- Biography.
Prostitution -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Biographies.