Manhattan Tales 1920-1945

By Isabel Butterfield
Feb. 1999
ISBN: 1-85776-367-X
182 p.
$34.95 Cloth

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New York has always been a city full of stories. In this buoyant and affectionate oral history, the author reminisces about her experiences in the city in the period between the World Wars. Topics covered include Prohibition, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression, the rise of Franklin Roosevelt and America’s entry into World War II.

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