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Empire of Sin., [a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans], Gary Krist, MP3

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Empire of Sin., [a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans], Gary Krist, MP3

Language

eng

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history

Main title

Empire of Sin.

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Oclc number

890622818

Responsibility statement

Gary Krist

Sub title

[a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans]

Summary

"Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Part 1: The war begins, 1890-1891. Going respectable ; The Sodom of the South ; The first casualty ; Retribution -- Part 2: Drawing boundaries, mid-1890s-1907. A sporting man ; New sounds ; Desperado ; Storyville rising ; Jazzmen ; The sin factory -- Part 3: Battlegrounds of sin, 1907-1917. The Black Hand ; A reawakening ; An incident on Franklin Street ; Hard times ; The new prohibitionists -- Part 4: 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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