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Capital of the world : a portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties / David Wallace.

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Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2011.

9780762770106 (hc.)

0762770104 (hc.)

xiii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Gentleman Jim." Part I. The good times mayor: Jimmy Walker -- Prohibition: Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club -- The rise of the mafia. Part I. The three M's: Morello, Masseria, and Maranzano -- The Rise of the mafia. Part II. Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano -- America's most famous madam: Polly Adler -- Queen of the nightclubs: Texas Guinan -- The birth of gossip journalism: Walter Winchell -- America's conflicted queen of vaudeville and comedy: Fanny Brice -- The rise of radio: David Sarnoff -- Dance: The charleston, the black bottom, and Martha Graham -- High Cs and high jinks: Classical music's biggest Scandal: Arturo Toscanini Geraldine Farrar -- Literature of the 1920s. Part I. F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Literature of the 1920s. Part II. Edith Wharton, Anita Loos and Eugene O'Neill -- The Round Table: Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, Franklin P. Adams, Marc Connelly, Harold Ross, and Dorothy Parker -- The witty critic: Dorothy Parker -- The magazines: Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and Time, and Harold Ross and the New Yorker -- New York's lesbian subculture -- Interior design pioneer: Elsie de Wolfe -- The Harlem Renaissance: The Cotton Club, Bessie Smith, and the Harlem Renaissance -- Sports: Bill Tilden and Babe Ruth -- The Ticker-Tape parade: Grover T. Whalen -- "Gentleman Jim." Part II. The party's over: Mayor Jimmy Walker -- The crash and the sign of a better tomorrow: The Chrysler building and architect William Van Alen.

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