New York Cafe Society

"In the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, playwrights, journalists, artists, composers, singers, actors, adventurers and socialites. Newspaperman Maury Paul dubbed them the Cafae Society. This book describes the emergence of Cafae Society from New York's old society families, and the rise of the new creative class"--