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Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan
Western Connecticut State University
In Nightclub City, Burton Peretti, professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, dishes out the wild and thrilling life story behind Manhattan’s nightclub scene at the height of its popularity. In the roaring twenties amidst the wars and unease, jazz clubs were the place to be, testing the social boundaries of early American partying. Peretti writes not about the party goers, but the ones attempting to control and prohibit sponsors of loose play. Through astonishing original research, Peretti argues the early club scene as a staple marker in the reconstruction of America’s relationship between its authority and citizens.
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