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Simon & Schuster
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
ISBN: 1416550194
EAN: 9781416550198
Kindle: B00DPM7TRM
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Non-Fiction
“Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle,
gristle, and glory” (Vanity Fair). In the 1920s midtown
Manhattan became the center of New York City, and the
cultural and commercial capital of America. This is the
story of the people who made it happen. In just four words—“the capital of everything”—Duke
Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting
and celebrated eras in our history: the Jazz Age. Supreme
City is the story of Manhattan’s growth and transformation
in the 1920s and the brilliant people behind it. Nearly all
of the makers of modern Manhattan came from elsewhere:
Walter Chrysler from the Kansas prairie; entertainment
entrepreneur Florenz Ziegfeld from Chicago. William Paley,
founder of the CBS radio network, was from Philadelphia,
while his rival David Sarnoff, founder of NBC, was a Russian
immigrant. Cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden was Canadian and
her rival, Helena Rubenstein, Polish. All of them had in
common vaulting ambition and a desire to fulfill their
dreams in New York. As mass communication emerged, the city
moved from downtown to midtown through a series of
engineering triumphs—Grand Central Terminal and the new and
newly chic Park Avenue it created, the Holland Tunnel, and
the modern skyscraper. In less than ten years Manhattan
became the social, cultural, and commercial hub of the
country. The 1920s was the Age of Jazz—and the Age of Ambition. Transporting, deeply researched, and utterly fascinating,
Supreme City “elegantly introduces one vivid character after
another to re-create a vital and archetypical era…A triumph”
(The New York Times).
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