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Bezig met laden... Gangsters & Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadwaydoor Jerome Charyn
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The Jazz age on Broadway told thru the lives of people directly involved. From Damon Runyon to Fannie Brice, William Randolph Hearst to Arnold Rothstein. .An engaging book that reads like group of Essays. ( ) As a history of the birth of Broadway, "Gangsters and gold diggers" probably has some merit. The writing style however was off-putting and it didn't help that many of the people referred to (without any backstory) were new to me. And it probably would help to read some Damon Runyan before reading this; I hadn't. Still, Charyn probably can't be blamed for the fact I'm an ignorant thicko, so you may get more from "Gangsters ..." than me. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American life,the Roaring Twenties,when Broadway the street exploded into Broadway the legend. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make the Big Street the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein, and many more. In cinematic prose and numerous photographs, 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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