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Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
ISBN: 9781468314502
(HB - EN)
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The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslieùa titan of publishing and an unsung hero of womenÆs suffrageùconnecting Gilded Age opulence with present-day social justiceAmong the fabled tycoons of the Gilded AgeùCarnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbiltùis a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the countryÆs largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Enterprises, which chronicled the postbellum 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
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