Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Registered by BooksandMusic of Seattle, Washington USA on 9/12/2010
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This book is in a Controlled Release!
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History, through and through. The author, Karen Abbott, in researching her family history, becomes interested in the possible fate of a great great aunt who disappeared in Chicago in 1905. Although we can't say what might have happened to this great great aunt with any certainty, the author takes us on an extensive tour of Chicago's Levee District, a place where many immigrant girls disappeared.
This is what the author herself says about her book,
"Most of the brothels in the city's thriving vice district were indeed wicked, block upon block of dingy, anonymous, twenty-five-cent cribs, but one, in remarkably short order, became as well known as Chicago itself. In these pages I tell the story of the Everleigh Club and its iconic madams, their libertine clients and bitter rivalries, and their battle to preserve the empire they so lovingly built. I want to stress that this is a work of nonfiction; every character I describe lived and breathed, if not necessarily thrived, on the Levee's mean streets."
This is what the author herself says about her book,
"Most of the brothels in the city's thriving vice district were indeed wicked, block upon block of dingy, anonymous, twenty-five-cent cribs, but one, in remarkably short order, became as well known as Chicago itself. In these pages I tell the story of the Everleigh Club and its iconic madams, their libertine clients and bitter rivalries, and their battle to preserve the empire they so lovingly built. I want to stress that this is a work of nonfiction; every character I describe lived and breathed, if not necessarily thrived, on the Levee's mean streets."
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