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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1608
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Merchant Vessels of the United States
Author: Merchant Vessels of the United States...
Author: United States. Coast GuardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Child Life
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Category : Early childhood education
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Publishers' Circular and the Publisher & Bookseller
Author: The English Catalogue of Books ...
Author: Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills AldenPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Madam
Author: Debby ApplegatePublisher: 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.