The guest list : how Manhattan defined American sophistication : from the Algonquin round table to Truman Capote's ball / Ethan Mordden.
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TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 317 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0312540248 (hc.)
- 9780312540241 (hc.)
- Celebrities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Elite (Social sciences) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- 974.7/1 22
- F128.5 .M83 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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