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Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society

Title
Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
Author
Blumenthal, Ralph.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.

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Description
296 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
Summary
The author tells the story of the fabled Stork Club and of "Sherman Billingsley, a former bootlegger from Oklahoma who arrived in New York a few months afters Prohibition, founded the Stork as a Jazz Age speakeasy, and fought running battles against gangsters for years."--Jacket.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Contents
Prologue -- Stork Club nights -- Bootlegging days -- Speakeasy days -- Stork Club twilight -- Afterward -- Photographic credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
JFE 01-14916
ISBN
0316105317
LCCN
99040200
OCLC
42072089
Author
Blumenthal, Ralph.
Title
Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
Imprint
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 01-14916
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