Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debby Applegate

Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Debby Applegate with Erin Bennett (Narrator)

20 hours, 34 minutes first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective sad medium-paced
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Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the cul...

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