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Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
by Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Da Capo Press (2003-11-13)
ISBN: 1568582781
Binding/Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1St Edition
Condition: Collectible: Like New
Comments: 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Full number line. Hardcover. 278pp. Fine in a Fine DJ. In lively, cinematic prose, Charyn captures Broadway?s vagabondage, outlaw culture, and self-mythologizing. He brings a rollicking, rough-and-tumble period in New York history to life?conjuring an intoxicating portrait of Jazz Age excess by examining the denizens of that greatest of all staggering machine[s] of desire, the street known as Broadway. Red boards with title in silver on spine. Nice tight binding. Text is clean. DJ covered in Brodart Mylar.
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