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A Pulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorPearl "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.

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

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A vividly detailed social history of Manhattan’s netherworld, peopled by gangsters and bootleggers, bookies and racketeers, corrupt policemen and politicians, and a seemingly endless stream of ‘working girls.’. . . An animated, entertaining history.”

In effervescent writing, Applegate chronicles how Adler, after escaping anti-Semitic Russia for New York City in 1913, survived judgmental relatives, sweatshop work, and rape before stumbling into a job procuring women for Nick Montana, ‘the Henry Ford of the sex trade’. . .The result is a rollicking examination of one of the country’s most sensational hostesses.”

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