Empire of sin : a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans / Gary Krist.
Krist, Gary, author.
2014
F379.N557 K75 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Empire of sin : a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans / Gary Krist.
Author Krist, Gary, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780770437060 (hardcover)
0770437060 (hardcover)
9780770437084 (paperback)
0770437087 (paperback)
Published New York : Crown, [2014]
Language English
Description 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number F379.N557 K75 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.3/35061
Summary "From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.
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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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