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Glimpses of a Golden Age: A Memoir of New York’s Heyday

Pull up a ringside seat to the exultant pageant of New York’s nightlife, commerce, and society, from the Cotton Club to Wall Street to Broadway. Charles Wohlstetter was a young acolyte to George Gershwin, Bernard Baruch, Abe Burrows, J. Paul Getty, and George S. Kaufman. He was admitted as a junior member of the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, and Alexander Woollcott. His Algonquin…