Ebook: Supreme City: how Jazz Age Manhattan gave birth to modern America

An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --;The Jimmy Walker era -- Power and politics -- A test for Tammany -- Jimmy Walker's New York -- Crime and Prohibition -- Too good to be true -- Owney Madden -- "The night club era" -- "He did it alone" -- The making of modern Manhattan -- Revenue plucked from the air -- Street of dreams -- Vanishing social citadels -- The woman's city -- Fred French -- Masters of the skyline -- The silver spire -- The magic carpet -- Bringing in the future -- Sarnoff -- Paley -- Jazz Age baby -- Sluggers -- Tex -- Pursuits -- Visions -- Highway under the Hudson -- Poet in steel -- A school of minnows -- Jazz Age icons -- Music is my mistress -- Master of allure -- A bag of plums -- Epilogue: Blue skies.