21: Every Day Was New Year's Eve

by H. Peter Kriendler, Paul Jeffers (Editor)

Overview

The story of New York's '21' Club is the story of American glamour in the twentieth century. In his star-studded memoir, saloonkeeper Peter Kriendler—younger brother of Jack Kriendler, cofounder of '21'—paints a spellbinding portrait of the club through its early years, its birth as a Greenwich Village speakeasy, its move to midtown during Prohibition, the tough days of the Great Depression, the dazzling Camelot nights, and the swinging go-go years as it became America's most legendary restaurant and a second home to the most powerful people in business, politics, and entertainment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878332298
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/1999
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.46(h) x 0.99(d)

Editorial Reviews

...[A] graceful and affectionate memoir of the fabulous decades of what was one of America's most elegant restaurants and saloons. His chronicle instructs us in what makes a success of such an establishment....Kriendler tops this meaty entree with a sauce of anecdote about the doings of the good, the bad, the ugly...
— The New York Times Book Review

David Murray