{"product_id":"nightclub-city","title":"Nightclub City","description":"Nightclub City\nPolitics and Amusement in Manhattan\nBurton W. Peretti\n\n\"\u003ci\u003eNightclub City\u003c\/i\u003e tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible writing style, \u003ci\u003eNightclub City\u003c\/i\u003e is a gritty social history of America's most glitzy fantasies.\"--Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Meticulously researched. . . . Peretti builds on previous studies of urban nightlife and entertainment, and his contribution is to look at institutions of commercial night life not from the perspective of consumers but from that of the reformer or official trying to tax, control, prohibit, or criminalize the purveyors of pleasure.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Peretti convincingly argues that nightclubs, at the peak of their popularity, played a small but highly significant role in redefining the relationship between America's government and its citizenry. . . . He skillfully wields illustrative quotes, cogent analysis, and an impressive body of archival evidence.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nIn the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition enforcement. This encounter between clubs and government-generated scandals, reform crusades, and regulations helped to redefine the image and reality of urban life in the United States. Ultimately, it took the Great Depression to cool Manhattan's Jazz Age nightclubs, forcing them to adapt and relocate, but not before they left their mark on the future of American leisure.\n\n\u003ci\u003eNightclub City\u003c\/i\u003e explores the cultural significance of New York City's nightlife between the wars, from Te","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52651435753839,"sku":"9780812221572","price":195.73,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0812221575.jpg?v=1770674055","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/nightclub-city","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}