Full name: The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night

Author: Anthony Haden-Guest Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Pop Culture Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061723742 0061723746

Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, into an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence.Going beyond the endless partying with Liza, Bianca, Halston, Andy, and Mick, Haden-Guest probes the seamy underside of Studio 54: the drugs, the deaths, and the corruption that eventually shuttered the club. It is the story of Studio 54's flamboyant owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, who achieved early success beyond their wildest imaginings, came within a hair's breadth of great power, and then crashed and burned. Similar books: Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga American Gun by Chris Kyle Mythos by Stephen Fry No Way Out by Mitch Weiss Dress in Anglo-Saxon England by Gale R. Owen-Crocker Easy riders, raging bulls by Peter Biskind Season of the Witch by David Talbot War Bonds by Cindy Hval Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows Nelson's Navy by Brian Lavery