Empire of sin : a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans
Item details
- ISBN: 9781410474872 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1410474879 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 699 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2014
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Originally published: New York : Crown, 2014. Unabridged. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-578). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part one. The war begins, 1890-1891 -- Going respectable -- The Sodom of the South -- The first casualty -- Retribution -- Part two. Drawing boundaries, mid-1890s-1907 -- A sporting man -- New sounds -- Desperado -- Storyville rising -- Jazzmen -- The sin factory -- Part three. Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917 -- The black hand -- A reawakening -- An incident on Franklin Street -- Hard times -- The new prohibitionists -- Part four. Twilight of the demimonde, 1917-1920 -- Exodus -- A killer in the night -- "Almost as if he had wings" -- The Axman's jazz -- The end of an empire -- The soiled phoenix -- Afterword: Who was the Axman? |
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