Fascinating New Yorkers: Power Freaks, Mobsters, Liberated Women, Creators, Queers and Crazies

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2019 International Book Awards Finalist - Biography

A prostitute’s daughter who got to know two ex-kings and a future emperor; a cardinal archbishop known in certain circles as Franny ; a serial killer who terrorized the city; a pioneer in female erotica who had two husbands and kept a lie box to keep her two lives straight - they’re all here in Clifford Browder’s collection of posts from his blog, people who, some remembered today and some forgotten, fulfilled themselves richly or horrendously in the wild and crazy city of New York. Some of these people Browder knew or encountered briefly, and some he got to know through their works. He relates surprising things about J.P. Morgan and his nose, Andy Warhol’s sex life, Nicky (Mr. Untouchable) Barnes, and Polly Adler, Queen of Tarts. Getting to know these New Yorkers, readers will be shocked or angered, puzzled or amused, but never bored.