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Diamonds and Deadlines
A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City’s Gilded Age
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Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—lies a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years, she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she...
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"An appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for." -New York Times Book Review
“An appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for.” —New York Times Book Review
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Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—lies a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years, she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies.
A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker 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 that she concealed through a skein of lies and multiple personas.
Both during and after her lifetime, glimpses of the truth emerged, including an illegitimate birth and a checkered youth.
In Diamonds and Deadlines by Betsy Prioleau, this remarkable woman's life comes to light, revealing her impactful role and tumultuous existence during the Gilded Age.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781419770890
Publisher: Abrams
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 January 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Abrams Press
Illustration: 25-30 black-and-white images in one insert
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 174g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Betsy Prioleau is an author, radio personality, and cultural historian. She received a PhD in American literature at Duke University, then went on to teach English and world literature at Manhattan College, where she was a tenured associate professor. She was a scholar in residence at New York University, and most recently taught cultural history at the New York University Liberal Studies Program. She is the author of Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them and Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love. Prioleau lives in New York.
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