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A House Is Not a Home
Polly Adler
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Description for A House Is Not a Home
Paperback. Provides an informal social history of immigrant mobility, prostitution, Jewish life in New York, police dishonesty, the "white slavery" scare of the early twentieth century, and political corruption. This book brings women's lives and problems to the forefront. Num Pages: 424 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Polly Adler's ""house"" - the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name ""synonymous with sin."" This new edition of Adler's autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass phenomenon, in both hardback and paperback, when it ... Read more
Polly Adler's ""house"" - the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name ""synonymous with sin."" This new edition of Adler's autobiography brings back into print a book that was a mass phenomenon, in both hardback and paperback, when it ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495593
SKU
V9781558495593
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-34
About Polly Adler
POLLY ADLER was born in Yanow on the Russian/Polish border in 1900, emigrated to New York City in 1912, and died in California in 1962. RACHEL RUBIN is associate professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature.
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