Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-349).
Summary:
Drawing on exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters and interviews, including with her daughter and namesake, a historian and cultural critic presents this glittering social history of Mollie Moon, the half of one of the most influential couplesof the period, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem.
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