{"product_id":"nightclub-city-9780812221572","title":"Nightclub City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis dark and dazzling history of New York City nightclub life in the 1920s and '30s explores the complex relationships among urban politicians, social reformers, and the business of vice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNightclub City\u003c\/i\u003e tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing style, \u003ci\u003eNightclub City\u003c\/i\u003e is a gritty social history of America's most glitzy fantasies.\" * Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously researched. . . . Peretti builds on previous studies of urban nightlife and entertainment, and his contribution is to look at institutions of commercial night life not from the perspective of consumers but from that of the reformer or official trying to tax, control, prohibit, or criminalize the purveyors of pleasure.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Peretti convincingly argues that nightclubs, at the peak of their popularity, played a small but highly significant role in redefining the relationship between America's government and its citizenry. . . . He skillfully wields illustrative quotes, cogent analysis, and an impressive body of archival evidence.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The 1920s New York Nightclub, a Modern Institution\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"The Hostess Evil\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tammany Nights\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"War on the Nightclubs\"\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bargain-Counter Broadway\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Where Fleshpots and Politics Together Meet\"\u003cbr\u003e 7. Nightlife in the La Guardia Era\u003cbr\u003e 8. A New Deal for Nightclubs\u003cbr\u003e 9. Billy Rose and Nightclubs for the Masses\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Nightclub in Retrospect\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405698933079,"sku":"9780812221572","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812221572.jpg?v=1730493321","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nightclub-city-9780812221572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}