Gangsters and Gold Diggers by Jerome Charyn

Gangsters and Gold Diggers by Jerome Charyn

In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life--the Roaring Twenties--when Broadway the street exploded into Broadway the legend. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make the Big Street the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein, and many more. In cinematic prose and numerous photographs, Charyn captures Broadway's vagabondage, outlaw culture, and self-mythologizing. He brings a rollicking, rough-and-tumble period in New York history to life--conjuring an intoxicating portrait of Jazz Age excess by examining the denizens of that greatest of all staggering machine(s) of desire, the street known as Broadway.

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ISBN 13	9781560256434
ISBN 10	1560256435
Title	Gangsters and Gold Diggers
Author	Jerome Charyn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thunder's Mouth Press
Year published	2004-12-21
Number of pages	296
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