Broadway Butterfly : Vivian Gordon, the lady gangster of Jazz Age New York

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The definitive, jaw-dropping account of the Jazz Age con woman, escort, speakeasy owner, and racketeer Vivian Gordon, whose sensational murder--and the damning list of powerful politicos, gangsters, and businessmen left behind in her diary--captivated Prohibition-era New York, obsessed its then-governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ensnared its mayor, and exposed the city's dark underbelly of police corruption.

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