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Book SynopsisWritten in the aftermath of Prohibition, this is an idiosyncratic account of the people and places that defined New York's night life during the era of "the great American madness". Readers meet murderers and millionaires, gangsters, bartenders, celebrities and a host of other characters.
Trade ReviewThis bright book is vivid but accurate, thoroughly informed, and it moves at a smart pace... Entirely interesting to read and worth reading, this book deserves enthusiasm and will get it. New York Times Book Review Highly entertaining reading. Variety An extraordinary record written with contagious enthusiasm. San Francisco Chronicle The first good biography of Broadway. Fast moving, compact, exact. New York Daily News I know of no volume which is so authentically New York as this, no history of recent contemporary life so amusing-and so true. A juicy slice of life. Boston Transcript In this volume flies an endless procession of colorful figures-all the well-known Broadway names and many not so well known but just as interesting. The book is history-history so breezily written that the reader, absorbed in anecdote and incident, may not take time out to ponder its authenticity and importance. Saturday Review of Literature
