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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities.

History.

Elite (Social sciences).

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Elite (Social sciences)--New York (State)--New York--History.

Celebrities--New York (State)--New York--History.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780312540241

0312540248

OCLC:

555656435