A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York 9781641602518

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Автор: Greer Bill
Название: A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York
ISBN: 9781641602518
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
Классификация:

История Америк

Социальная история и история культуры

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 1641602511
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 07.04.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 152 x 227 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900,Politics & government,Social & cultural history
Подзаголовок: Sex, suffrage, and scandal in gilded age new york
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: New York, 1872, was a city convulsing with social upheaval and sexual revolution seven years after the Civil War. As the year began, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free love advocate Victoria Woodhull was running for president; vice hunter Anthony Comstock battled smut dealers poisoning childrens minds; and abortionists were thriving--and killing. Through the year these stories intertwined in ways unimaginable, pulling in others famous and infamous--suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Brooklyns beloved preacher Henry Ward Beecher, the nations richest tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Howe, preeminent counsel to the criminal element. Through the lives of these larger-than-life characters, the issues of the day played out--rigged elections, everyday shootings, attacks on the press, sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, the chasm between rich and poor--issues that resonate today. Political parties split over a bitterly contested election, suffragist battled suffragist over bettering womens place in society, and pious saints fought soulless sinners, until at year-end this jumble of conflicts exploded in the greatest sensation of the nineteenth century.

A Dirty Year: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York, Greer Bill