Madam : the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age
(2021)
By:
Applegate, Debby
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ADLER,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, [2021]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385534758, 0385534752 :, 0385534752, 9780385534758
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
From a nobody to a legend -- Man plans, god laughs -- The jazz baby -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? -- Liquor and lust -- Thumbs up with the mob -- The double standard -- The party girl racket -- The underworld complex -- The Jewish jezebel -- The female Al Capone -- Café society -- The big shot -- Madam emeritus
"A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age."--