MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF128.5$b.M83 2010
082 00 $a974.7/1$222
100 1 $aMordden, Ethan,$d1947-
245 10 $aGuest list :$bhow Manhattan defined American sophistication : from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's ball /$cEthan Mordden.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2010.
263 $a1010
300 $ap. cm.
505 0 $aDid Mrs. Astor attend? -- The 1920s -- Grand hotel : the Round Table -- Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferbe : the loneliness of smarty -- The marriage(s) of the century -- The 1930s -- Jimmy Walker, Fiorello La Guardia, and the war of the minorities -- I cabaret'd last night : Ethel Waters and the Black emergence in show business -- The 1940s -- Wise guys -- Dorothy Thompson : man's work -- Culture for free -- Who killed society? -- The 1950s -- The war on the column -- The 1960s -- Cole Porter : and you'll rate with all the great swells -- Truman Capote and the war of the writers -- The ball of the century.
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
650 0 $aCelebrities$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory.
651 0 $aManhattan (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.