Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936

by Edward Sorel

Book Overview

In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Resolved to fix up the place, Sorel began pulling up the linoleum on his kitchen floor, tearing away layer after layer until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood and starring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631490230
• ISBN13: 9781631490231
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.3"