Two Hearst newspapermen take the reader on a breathless tour of New York around 1950: Broadway and the nightclubs, gangsters and politicians, Harlem, the Bowery, Greenwich Village, call girls, tourists and newcomers warned to bring four months’ money. The tone is gossip column throughout, and the prejudices against Black, gay and immigrant New Yorkers are glaring.
A bestselling period piece, best read as a document of postwar tabloid attitudes rather than fact. Download the free EPUB.