€œGary Krist presents a thrilling tableau.†€œxpertly described…a fascinating and colourful saga that, in the skilful hands of Krist, reads almost like a E L Doctorow novel and invites us all to take a trip ‘way down yonder’.†He tears through diaries and old newspapers, bringing fleshy life to what might otherwise dissolve into sepia.†€œn Gary Krist’s well-researched account of New Orleans’ turn-of-the-century underworld, there is no mistaking his affection for the ribald and rowdy…Krist is an enthusiastic raconteur of the forgotten. €œWhile there have been many fine books and articles written about New Orleans’ Storyville era… Gary Krist’s “Empire of Sin†is certainly one of the most well-researched and well-written, a true-life tale of a sui generis American city that reads like a historical thriller… The book’s subtitle, A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans, sums up Krist’s story well — it’s a book both lurid and scholarly, and thoroughly entertaining.†Empire of Sin isn’t simply the story of how New Orleans came to be, but rather how New Orleans came to learn to fight.†Krist’s expansive exploration of the decadeslong battle for New Orleans’ soul in the end celebrates New Orleans’ character, its essence: the city’s long history of defiance and resilience its ability to pivot in the midst of disaster. It’s a backdrop as lush and intricate as a Mardi Gras Ball tableaux vivant — a raucous living portrait…Krist finesses this — lifting data and record to poetry — by procuring specific, redolent details from centuries-old documents…and from them the swirl of frontier New Orleans slides into view. The book itself is a masterful sleight-of-hand…Moving between parallel narratives, Krist simultaneously — and elegantly — layers more than 30 years of sharply drawn Crescent City social history. €œWide-reaching, vividly drawn…Empire of Sin is Krist’s meticulously researched, mesmerizing account of New Orleans’ outsized vice wars. €”Karen Abbot, author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy Krist guides us through a deliciously ribald time in Crescent City history, from the end of the Gilded Age to the dawn of Prohibition, when the city’s elite battled its prodigious and flamboyant underworld.†€œEmpire of Sin had me at the subtitle—who could resist a tale that promises sex, jazz and murder in New Orleans?—and the (true) narrative brilliantly delivers. He has been the recipient of the Stephen Crane Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the bestselling City of Scoundrels and the acclaimed The White Cascade, as well as several works of fiction. GARY KRIST has written for the New York Times, Esquire, Salon, the Washington Post Book World, and elsewhere.
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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.
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. 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 CityĮmpire 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.
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