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The eight million : journal of a New York correspondent / by Meyer Berger ; illustrated by Henry Berger.
LIBRA F128.5 .B48 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Meyer, 1898-1959.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Columbia University Press Morningside edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.
- Summary:
- The New York of the 1930's: Murder, Inc. and lonely-hearts clubs, marijuana dens in Harlem and nuns on 29th Street, cowboys and diamonds cutters, gypsies and bail bondsmen, the men of the sea an the women of the gangs, Broadway and the Tombs, the rich, the poor, and the eccentric. This is a journalist's view of Gotham in the Golden Age.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1942.
- ISBN:
- 0231057105 :
- 0231057113
- OCLC:
- 9066227
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