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Author Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

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

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

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  974.71 MORDDEN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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.
ISBN 9780312540241 hardcover
0312540248 hardcover
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