Empire of sin : a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans

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Label

Empire of sin : a story of sex, jazz, murder, and the battle for modern New Orleans

Title remainder

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

Statement of responsibility

Gary Krist

Creator

• Krist, Gary

Author

• Krist, Gary

Subject

• Crime -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
• Jazz -- Social aspects -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
• Murder -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
• New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century
• Anderson, Thomas Charles, 1858-1931
• Sex customs -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century
• Storyville (New Orleans, La.) -- History -- 20th century
• Storyville (New Orleans, La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Corruption -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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. 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. 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

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

976.3/35061

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F379.N557

LC item number

K75 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography