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Nightclub city : politics and amusement in Manhattan / Burton W. Peretti.
LIBRA F128.627 P47 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peretti, Burton W. (Burton William), 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Social conditions.
- Amusements.
- History.
- Leisure.
- City and town life.
- Nightclubs.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- Nightclubs--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Leisure--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Amusements--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Manners and customs.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
- Politics and government.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Nightclub City interweaves a history of the nightclub with chapters that reveal its close relationship to major civic trends: moral reform and policing, Prohibition, the fight against public corruption, the Great Depression, and the New Deal. What emerges is a story of a city, and a national culture as a whole, redefining its civic life through its leisure."
- Contents:
- 1 The 1920s New York Nightclub, a Modern Institution 1
- 2 "The Hostess Evil" 28
- 3 Tammany Nights 51
- 4 "War on the Nightclubs" 73
- 5 Bargain-Counter Broadway 99
- 6 "Where Fleshpots and Politics Together Meet" 123
- 7 Nightlife in the La Guardia Era 146
- 8 A New Deal for Nightclubs 170
- 9 Billy Rose and Nightclubs for the Masses 190
- Conclusion: The Nightclub Era in Retrospect 218.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812239973
- 0812239970
- OCLC:
- 86168651
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