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Texas Guinan was the queen of New York s speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the city s biggest sharks and swankest swells. Movie stars, flappers, madams, musicians and more flocked to midtown s Wet Zone, Greenwich Village and Harlem for inebriated entertainment… Author David Rosen recounts Texas s adventurous life alongside tales of Gotham s nightlife when abstinence was the law of the land and breaking the law an all-American indulgence. –Back cover.