New York Café Society the elite meet to see and be seen, 1920s - 1940s
Ward McAllister, Caroline Astor and the 400Prohibition, the speakeasies and nightclubs of the 1920s -- The cult of personality -- Café Society's writers, journalists, editors and playwrights -- Boom and bust : music, skyscrapers and Wall Street in the 1920s -- Effect of the Great Depression on...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Jefferson, North Carolina
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Ward McAllister, Caroline Astor and the 400Prohibition, the speakeasies and nightclubs of the 1920s -- The cult of personality -- Café Society's writers, journalists, editors and playwrights -- Boom and bust : music, skyscrapers and Wall Street in the 1920s -- Effect of the Great Depression on New York society and Café Society -- This New York : Maury Paul, Lucius Beebe and Walter Winchell -- The Colony, the Plaza, the Rainbow Room and the Waldorf -- Jack and Charlie's 21 Club -- The Stork Club -- El Morocco -- Café Society fades away. "In the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury Paul dubbed them the Café Society. This book describes the emergence of Café Society from New York's old society families, and the rise of the new creative class"-- "In the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury Paul dubbed them the Café Society. This book describes the emergence of Café Society from New York's old society families, and the rise of the new creative class"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210) and index |
| Beschreibung: | VI, 213 S illustrations 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780786474370 978-0-7864-7437-0 |