Madam. The Biography Of Polly Adler, Icon Of The Jazz Age

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Doubleday
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 553 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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 … Pollys many court battles, newspaper headlines, mobster dealings and society gossip…. A breathless tale told through extraordinary research. — The New York Times Book ReviewSimply Everybody came to Pollys. 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 Adlers 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 Pollys 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.

ISBN: 9780385534758