The guest list
Subtitle: how Manhattan defined American sophistication : from the Algonquin round table to Truman Capote's ball
By: Ethan Mordden
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780312540241
Subjects: Social life and customs; Elite (Social sciences); Intellectual life; Celebrities; Biography; History
Description: A survey of Manhattan culture from the 1920s through the 1960s explores the ways in which the city's diverse venues set a standard for national sophistication.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Did Mrs. Astor attend?; title: The 1920s; title: Grand hotel : the Round Table; title: Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber :  the loneliness of smarty; title: The marriage(s) of the century; title: The 1930s; title: Jimmy Walker, Fiorello La Guardia,  and the war of the minorities; title: I cabaret'd last night : Ethel Waters and the Black emergence in show business; title: The 1940s; title: Wise guys; title: Dorothy Thompson : man's work; title: Culture for free; title: Who killed society?; title: The 1950s; title: The war on the column; title: The 1960s; title: Cole Porter : and you'll rate with all the great swells; title: Truman Capote and the war of the writers; title: The ball of the century.