An edition of Empire of sin
(2014)
Empire of sin
a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
Large print edition.
by Gary Krist
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Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-year war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early 20th-century battle centers on Tom Anderson, the czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts on all sides. Prostitutes, reformers, jazzmen, Mafiosi, politicians, and one serial killer all battle for primacy in the wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.
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Murder, Social conditions, Large type books, Jazz, Corruption, Sex customs, History, Crime, united states, Murder, louisiana, New orleans (la.), history, New orleans (la.), social conditions, TRUE CRIME / General, nyt:crime-and-punishment=2015-07-12, New York Times bestseller, CrimeTimes
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Empire of sin: a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
2015
in English
- Large print edition.
1410474879 9781410474872
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Empire of sin: a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
2015, Broadway Books
in English
- First paperback edition.
0770437087 9780770437084
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for New Orleans
2014, Amberley Publishing
in English
1445644541 9781445644547
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Part one. The war begins, 1890-1891. Going respectable
The Sodom of the South
The first casualty
Retribution
Part two. Drawing boundaries, 1890s-1907
A sporting man
New sounds
Desperado
Storyville rising
Jazzmen
The sin factory
Part three. Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917. The black hand
A reawakening
An incident on Franklin Street
Hard times
The new prohibitionists
Part four. Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920. Exodus
A killer in the night
"Almost as if he had wings"
The Axman's jazz
The end of an empire
The soiled phoenix
Afterword: Who was the Axman?
Edition Notes
Originally published: New York : Crown, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references.
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