Author: Springfield (Mass.)
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Category : Springfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Contains the reports of city officials for the preceding year.
Madam
Author: Debby Applegate
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385534760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. "A fast-paced tale of … Polly’s many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research.” —The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385534760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. "A fast-paced tale of … Polly’s many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research.” —The New York Times Book Review Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld—and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.
Organized Efforts for the Improvement of Methods of Administration in the United States
Author: Gustavus Adolphus Weber
Publisher:
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Category : Bill drafting
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bill drafting
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
PAIS Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Policy sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
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Category : Policy sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Author: New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Special Libraries
Author:
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Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Also includes 1st-5th SLA triennial salary surveys.
Publisher:
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Category : Special libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Also includes 1st-5th SLA triennial salary surveys.
Publications
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description