Title Nightclub city : politics and amusement in Manhattan / Burton W. Peretti

Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) : illustrations Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The 1920s New York Nightclub, a Modern Institution -- Chapter 2. "The Hostess Evil" -- Chapter 3. Tammany Nights -- Chapter 4. "War on the Nightclubs" -- Chapter 5. Bargain-Counter Broadway -- Chapter 6. "Where Fleshpots And Politics Together Meet" -- Chapter 7. Nightlife in the La Guardia Era -- Chapter 8. A New Deal for Nightclubs -- Chapter 9. Billy Rose and Nightclubs for The Masses -- Chapter 10. The Nightclub Era in Retrospect -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments Summary This dark and dazzling history of New York City nightclub life in the 1920s and '30s explores the complex relationships among urban politicians, social reformers, and the business of vice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Subject Nightclubs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Amusements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Amusements Manners and customs Nightclubs Politics and government SUBJECT Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006051092 ISBN 9780812203363 0812203364

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