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Description
A new edition of the author's first book, originally published in 1938, features an entertaining and incisive collection of interviews with fan dancers, African-American evangelists, taxi drivers, strippers, marijuana smokers, and other fascinating individuals from the New York waterfront, tenements, fish market, bars, burlesque houses, storefront revival churches, and the theater district. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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