Book Description A colorful account of turn-of-the-century New York scandal, by a legendary City Hall reporter and the first woman to write for THE NEW YORKERs Talk of the Town.
From Publishers This brisk, rollicking biography of a blackguard2 (THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) recounts the notorious career of Colonel William d1Alton Mann, a larger-than-life, protean scoundrel whose TOWN TOPICS was a weekly New York magazine through which the Colonel and his henchmen blackmailed the swells and plutocrats ? the Morgans, the Goulds, the Vanderbilts among them ? of the city1s early-20th-century high society.
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