David Wallace

David Wallace talks about how New York City became the cultural and financial capital of the world during the 1920s, an era of social, economic, and cultural prosperity that forever changed the way people lived. Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties paints a portrait of the city in this dizzying time—a period that saw Prohibition, the rise of the Mafia, the birth of radio, the beginnings of gossip as a business, and the flourishing jazz age.