1st New York TEXAS GUINAN Queen Of The Nightclubs Speakeasies Prohibition Crime

by Louise Berliner

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First edition

Title: Texas Guinan Queen of The Nightclubs Author: Louise Berliner Publisher: University of Texas Press (1993) Description: This is the scarce sought after biography about Texas Guinan, a woman who was as famous as they come back in the Jazz age of the roaring twenties. Today Guinan is mostly forgotten, even though she was an entrepreneur, hostess, film star and a major personality in New York for a long time. This makes for entertaining reading. See the text from the dustjacket below for a complete picture of what the book covers. Contains photographs, an index, film chronology and bibliography. This is your chance to pick up this hard to find first edition biography. From the DJ flap: “Hello, Suckers!” Every night she flung that greeting at the Jazz Age flappers and gents who crowded in to see the “Queen of the Nightclubs” work her magic. They came to laugh and drink and forget the world outside—and Texas Guinan kept the party going. She was the wittiest nightclub hostess in New York, and her clubs had the best floor shows, the most elegant decor, and all the bootleg liquor that furtively exchanged dollars could buy. Here is the story of Texas Guinan—night-club hostess, theater and vaudeville actress, and star of silent westerns. Louise Berliner, a granddaughter of the lawyer who defended Guinan at her notorious “public nuisance” trial in 1929, follows the whole course of Guinan’s life (1884-1933), from her childhood in a devout Catholic home in Waco, Texas, to her celebri

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Year: 1993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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