Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
Betsy Prioleau
The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie―a titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage―connecting Gilded Age opulence with present-day social justice Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age―Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt―is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Enterprises, which chronicled the post bellum United States in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal: She flouted feminine convention, took lovers, married four times, and harbored unsavory secrets which she concealed through a skein of lies and multiple personas. Both before and after her death, glimpses of the truth emerged, including an illegitimate birth and a checkered youth. At the end, Leslie, a staunch royalist and member of the ultra-elite, willed her multimillion-dollar estate to women’s suffrage, providing enough funding to guarantee the passage of the 19th Amendment. A dazzling biography, Diamonds & Deadlines reveals the unknown, sensational life of the brilliant and brazen “Empress of Journalism” who presaged the feminist future and reflected, in bold relief, the Gilded Age, one of the most momentous, seismic, and vivid epochs in American history.
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Năm:
2022
Nhà xuát bản:
Abrams
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
368
ISBN 10:
1468314505
ISBN 13:
9781468314502
File:
MOBI , 4.20 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2022
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