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Hear the 20s Roar

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate

March 21, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

This is another book where you really have to be deeply invested in the subject matter to enjoy it. Fortunately, it’s right up my alley. 20s, bootlegging, gangsters, New York City. Yes, yes, yes, and yes. It seems as if there was one running thread that connected gangsters like Arnold Rothstein to politicians like Jimmy Walker to entertainers like the Marx brothers to athletes like Jack Dempsey to the upper crust of Manhattan society, it was sex. Specifically the sex Polly Adler provided in her […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #biography, Debby Applegate, Madam, New York City, Polly Adler, Prohibiton, Roaring 20s, sex work, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:37 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #biography, Debby Applegate, Madam, New York City, Polly Adler, Prohibiton, Roaring 20s, sex work, true crime ·
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