Madam the biography of Polly Adler, icon of the Jazz Age

Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women. They were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and wit...

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Main Author: Applegate, Debby (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • From a nobody to a legend
  • Man plans, god laughs
  • The jazz baby
  • What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?
  • Liquor and lust
  • Thumbs up with the mob
  • The double standard
  • The party girl racket
  • The underworld complex
  • The Jewish jezebel
  • The female Al Capone
  • CafeĢ society
  • The big shot
  • Madam emeritus.