![]() ![]() OL19994662W Page_number_confidence 96.02 Pages 454 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0. Obscured text on back cover due to sticker attached.Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:14:47 Boxid IA40263216 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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? Battlegrounds of Sin, 1907-1917 - The Black Hand - A Reawakening - An Incident on Franklin Street - Hard Times - The New Prohibitionists - PART FOUR. Drawing Boundaries, 1890s-1907 - A Sporting Man - New Sounds - Desperado - Storyville Rising - Jazzmen - The Sin Factory - PART THREE. ![]() The War Begins, 1890-1891 - Going Respectable - The Sodom of the South - The First Casualty - Retribution - PART TWO. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index ![]() ![]() During this tumultuous period, New Orleanians were torn between two conflicting impulses: a desire to embrace the citys unique identity as a hotbed of exotic, profitable but often decadent. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world"- In Empire of Sin Gary Krist gives readers a panoramic view of the history of New Orleans from 1890-1920. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans thirty-years war against itself, pitting the citys elite better half against its powerful. 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. Library Journal writes that Empire of Sin “proves that truth really is stranger than fiction” while Publishers Weekly applauds Krist for writing a “story more vivid and twist-filled than most crime fiction.” Krist, who also is the author of City of Scoundrels and The White Cascade , says he was drawn to this topic because of “how the social, racial, and moral issues of the times played out” in this unique setting."From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. It was on this battleground that New Orleans would wage a war against itself, as underworld and high society fought for dominance. There, Tom Anderson, once a scrappy kid from a bad neighborhood, reigned as the aristocratic and wildly popular “mayor.” The streets of Anderson’s domain were populated by cosmopolitan madams, eager customers, corrupt police, and a dangerous serial killer known as “the Axman,” as well as jazz musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. In an effort to curb the influence of the city’s underworld, the government founded the red-light district of Storyville. “It is no easy matter to go to heaven by way of New Orleans,” reads the epigraph of Gary Krist ’79’s book Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans. If readers aren’t convinced of this by page one, they certainly will be by the end of the book: Krist delivers a harrowing tale of a debauched, crime-ridden city as it struggles to raise itself from moral decay.īy the late 1890s, New Orleans’ elite had had enough of the city’s violence, prostitution, drinking, and rampant crime. ![]()
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