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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mordden, Ethan, 1947-
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Description:	xv, 317 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Elite (Social sciences) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Celebrities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Celebrities. Elite (Social sciences) Intellectual life. Manners and customs. 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. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography. New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Manhattan. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8153715

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ISBN:	9780312540241 (hc.) 0312540248 (hc.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of 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.