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

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Title:

Author:

Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Personal Author:

Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2010]

Physical Description:

xv, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

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.

Language:

English

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Elite (Social sciences) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Celebrities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Geographic Term:

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.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.

New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.

ISBN:

9780312540241