Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties

In the same absorbing style that characterized his bestseller Lost Hollywood, David Wallace presents a the Prohibition-era personalities and events that made New York City the cultural and financial capital of the world. Sex, sin, song, work, sports, play?all these aspects of New York and more are told through a rich array of anecdotes and ?inside? profiles of the individuals that personified them in a defining decade.

As no book has to date, Capital of the World brings alive New York during...