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

Author
Mordden, Ethan, 1947-
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xv, 317 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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.
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ISBN
9780312540241 (hc.)
0312540248 (hc.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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