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 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. This book reveals the previously unknown, sensational life of the brilliant and brazen “empress of journalism".
- Publisher: Abrams Press
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Publication date:
19/12/2023
- ISBN: 9781419770890
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Page extent:
384
- Format: Paperback
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Dimensions:
140 mm x 211 mm
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