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The story of New York's '21' Club is the story of American glamour in the twentieth century. In his star-studded memoir saloonkeeper Peter Kriendler?younger brother of Jack Kriendler cofounder of '21'?paints a spellbinding portrait of the club through its early years its birth as a Greenwich Village speakeasy its move to midtown during Prohibition the tough days of the Great Depression the dazzling Camelot nights and the swinging go-go years as it became America's most legendary restaurant and a second home to the most powerful people in business politics and entertainment.