Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer: Nathan Burkan and the Making of American Popular Culture

by Gary A. Rosen

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. With a client list that included Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn, Burkan was "New York's Spotlight Lawyer" for more than three decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520297377
• ISBN13: 9780520297371
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"