The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball by Ethan Mordden

The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

Ethan Mordden

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America’s beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander...

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