The guest list : how Manhattan defined American sophistication : from the Algonquin round table to Truman Capote's ball / Ethan Mordden.

A survey of Manhattan culture from the 1920s through the 1960s explores the ways in which the city's diverse venues set a standard for national sophistication.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mordden, Ethan, 1947-
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xv, 317 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Did Mrs. Astor attend? -- The 1920s -- Grand hotel : the Round Table -- Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber : the loneliness of smarty -- The marriage(s) of the century -- The 1930s -- Jimmy Walker, Fiorello La Guardia, and the war of the minorities -- I cabaret'd last night : Ethel Waters and the Black emergence in show business -- The 1940s -- Wise guys -- Dorothy Thompson : man's work -- Culture for free -- Who killed society? -- The 1950s -- The war on the column -- The 1960s -- Cole Porter : and you'll rate with all the great swells -- Truman Capote and the war of the writers -- The ball of the century. 
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