The New Colossus

by Marshall Goldberg | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1626812799 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingDove-i-Libriwing of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 2/5/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingDove-i-Libriwing from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Sunday, February 5, 2017
I bought this last year or the year before and had lent it to someone. FINALLY got it back! (I know, right?)

From the book jacket: "... Greed. Corruption. Murder. New York in 1880 is a hell of a place to make your living.

Nellie Bly arrives at age 24 in Manhattan, lacking connections and money, but blessed with an abundance of courage and a skill for reporting. Within ten months she lands two front-page stories on the country’s most widely-read newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.

The pugnacious and voluble Pulitzer is so impressed that he assigns her to get to the bottom of a murder that has confounded the police—the untimely death of his friend Emma Lazarus, the controversial poet and activist. Her investigation leads to tense encounters with some of the most powerful and ruthless men of the time, in an era where elected officials are bought and sold, and where greed runs rampant on an unregulated Wall Street. Outgunned and ignoring her contemptuous all-male colleagues, Bly has only two real allies: a doctor who uses scientific techniques to establish criminal behavior, and a theater critic with unlimited access to underground New York. As the pieces fall into place Bly uncovers layer after layer of corruption, getting closer to a dangerous core—and to the truth ...
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April 25, 2022: Started reading this today! Reading it as part of my 2022 Reduce Mount TBR Challenge!

Journal Entry 2 by wingDove-i-Libriwing at Cape Coral, Florida USA on Wednesday, April 13, 2022
April 28, 2022: will be keeping for my PC as it involves an amazing time in NYC history related to my Lady Liberty! Whether fictionalized or truly historical, I loved the story!

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