Prohibition New York City: Speakeasy Queen Texas Guinan, Blind Pigs, Drag Balls and More

by David Rosen

Book Overview

Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the city's biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams, musicians and more flocked to midtown's "Wet Zone," Greenwich Village and Harlem for inebriated entertainment. Patrons threw cultural norms aside as free-flowing hooch lubricated the jazz joints, sex circuses and drag balls that fueled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467146412
• ISBN13: 9781467146418
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"