Gentleman Jimmy Walker, Mayor of the Jazz Age
Author | : George Walsh |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : George Walsh |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : George Walsh |
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Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Herbert Mitgang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Corruption investigation |
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Author | : James Ciment |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2015-04-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317471652 |
This illustrated encyclopedia offers in-depth coverage of one of the most fascinating and widely studied periods in American history. Extending from the end of World War I in 1918 to the great Wall Street crash in 1929, the Jazz age was a time of frenetic energy and unprecedented historical developments, ranging from the League of Nations, woman suffrage, Prohibition, the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan, the Lindberg flight, and the Scopes trial, to the rise of organized crime, motion pictures, and celebrity culture."Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age" provides information on the politics, economics, society, and culture of the era in rich detail. The entries cover themes, personalities, institutions, ideas, events, trends, and more; and special features such as sidebars and photos help bring the era vividly to life.
Author | : Herbert Mitgang |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815412630 |
Veteran journalist Mitgang has written a flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering around the intersecting careers of the city's popular mayor, Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Author | : Donald L. Miller |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416550208 |
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --
Author | : Art M. Blake |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421439239 |
Originally published in 2006. For many Americans at the turn of the twentieth century and into the 1920s, the city of New York conjured dark images of crime, poverty, and the desperation of crowded immigrants. In How New York Became American, 1890–1924, Art M. Blake explores how advertising professionals and savvy business leaders "reinvented" the city, creating a brand image of New York that capitalized on the trend toward pleasure travel. Blake examines the ways in which these early boosters built on the attention drawn to the city and its exotic populations to craft an image of New York City as America writ urban—a place where the arts flourished, diverse peoples lived together boisterously but peacefully, and where one could enjoy a visit. Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual primary sources, Blake guides the reader through New York's many civic identities, from the first generation of New York skyscrapers and their role in "Americanizing" the city to the promotion of Midtown as the city's definitive public face. His study ranges from the late 1890s into the early twentieth century, when the United States suddenly emerged as an imperial power, and the nation's industry, commerce, and culture stood poised to challenge Europe's global dominance. New York, the nation's largest city, became the de facto capital of American culture. Social reformers and tourism boosters, keen to see America's cities rival those of France or Britain, jockeyed for financial and popular support. Blake weaves a compelling story of a city's struggle for metropolitan and national status and its place in the national imagination.
Author | : Michael Wolraich |
Publisher | : Union Square & Co. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1454948035 |
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.
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Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Archives |
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Author | : Francesco Landolfi |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2022-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000623483 |
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition only after the end of WWI with the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment. By considering the success that war prohibition made to the soldiers' psychophysical condition, Congress aimed to shift this political move even to civil society. So it was that the Italian, Irish and Jewish mobs took the chance to spread their bribe system to local politics due to the lucrative alcohol bootlegging. New York became the core of the national anti-prohibition, where the smuggling from Canada and Europe merged into the legendary Manhattan nightclubs and speakeasies. With the coming of the Great Depression, the Republican Party was aware about the failure of this political measure, leading to the making of a new corporate underworld. The book is addressed to historians of New York, historians of crime and historians of modern America as well as to an audience of readers interested in the history of the Prohibition Era.