Debby Applegate
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Pearl "Polly" Alder, New York City madam and icon of the Jazz Age"--
Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women. They were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld-- and had a good time doing it. As a Jewish...