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Details

• ISBN: 9780770437060 (hardcover) :
• Physical Description: viii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmprint
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : Crown, [2014]
• Copyright: ©2014
• Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Formatted Contents Note: PART ONE. The War Begins, 1890-1891 -- Going Respectable -- The Sodom of the South -- The First Casualty -- Retribution -- PART TWO. Drawing Boundaries, 1890s-1907 -- A Sporting Man -- New Sounds -- Desperado -- Storyville Rising -- Jazzmen -- The Sin Factory -- PART THREE. Battlegrounds of Sin, 1907-1917 -- The Black Hand -- A Reawakening -- An Incident on Franklin Street -- Hard Times -- The New Prohibitionists -- PART FOUR. Twilight of the Demimonde, 1917-1920 -- Exodus -- A Killer in the Night -- "Almost As if He Had Wings" -- The Axman's Jazz -- The End of an Empire -- The Soiled Phoenix -- AFTERWORD: Who Was the Axman?

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