Supreme City : : how Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
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The Jimmy Walker era -- Power and politics. A test for Tammany ; Jimmy Walker's New York -- Crime and Prohibition. too good to be true ; Owney Madden ; "The night club era" ; "He did it alone" -- The making of modern Manhattan. Revenue plucked from the air ; Street of dreams ; Vanishing social citadels ; The woman's city ; Fred French ; Masters of the skyline ; The silver spire ; The magic carpet -- Bringing in the future. Sarnoff ; Paley ; Jazz Age baby ; Sluggers ; Tex ; Pursuits ; visions ; Highway under the Hudson ; Poet in steel ; A school of minnows -- Jazz Age icons. Music is my mistress ; Master of allure ; A bag of plums -- Blue skies.
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xvi, 763 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781416550198
1416550194
SUBJECTS
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 1898-1951.
History