A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
Pearl "Polly" Adler was a dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld. As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler\'s life is a classic American story of success and assimilation. Debby Applegate uses Polly\'s story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.