This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to
the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants
like Toots Shor's, "21," and Sardi's, as well as glittering
nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were
the nightly gathering spots for great figures of that era: movie
and Broadway stars, baseball players, champion boxers, comedians,
diplomats, British royalty, prize-winning authors, and famous
painters. From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel
Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway,
from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor: Leonard Lyons knew them
all. For forty glorious years, from 1934 to 1974, he made the daily
rounds of Gotham nightspots, collecting the exclusive scoops and
revelations that were at the core of his famous newspaper column,
"The Lyons Den." In this entertaining volume Jeffrey Lyons has
assembled a considerable compilation of anecdotes from his father's
best columns, and has also contributed a selection of his own
interviews with stars of today, including Penelope Cruz and George
Clooney, among others. Organized chronologically by decade and
subdivided by celebrity, Stories My Father Told Me offers
fascinating, amusing stories that are illustrated by approximately
seventy photographs. He so captured the tenor of those exciting
times that the great Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg said:
"Imagine how much richer American history would have been had there
been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln's time."
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