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A dirty year : sex, suffrage, and scandal in Gilded Age New York /
As 1872 opened, The New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that 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; anti-vice activist Antho...
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A dirty year : |b sex, suffrage, and scandal in Gilded Age New York / |c Bill Greer. |
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| 520 | |a As 1872 opened, The New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that 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; anti-vice activist Anthony Comstock battled smut dealers poisoning children's minds; and abortionists were thriving. Throughout the year these stories intertwined in unimaginable ways, pulling in others, both famous and infamous--suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Brooklyn's beloved preacher Henry Ward Beecher; the nation's riches tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt; and William Howe, preeminent counsel to the criminal element. From rigged elections, everyday shootings, and attacks on the press to sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, and the chasm between rich and poor, the issues of the day still resonate. Political parties split over a bitterly contested election; suffragist battled suffragist over bettering women's 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. |c --Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I: The New Year, 1872 -- 1. State of the City -- Part II: Winter -- 2. "I've Got You Now" -- 3. "Bravo! My Dear Woodhull" -- 4. "These Heartless and Unscrupulous Specimens of Human Depravity" -- 5. "The Female Form Divine in Various and Picturesque Attitudes" -- 6. Everyone Enjoys a Good Party -- Part III: Spring -- 7. Black Friday -- 8. "In Due Time Ye Shall Reap If Ye Faint Not" -- 9. "Tit for Tat" -- 10. Howe's Magic -- 11. "From This Convention Will Go Forth a Tide of Revolution." -- 12. An Afternoon in the Park -- Part IV: Summer -- 13. "A Piebald Presidency" -- 14. "Too Indecent to Be Herein Set Forth" -- 15. "Society ... Will Have Its Ghastly Meal of Curiosity" -- 16. "Relief from Trouble" -- 17. "Worth a Hot Night in the Theater" -- Part V: Autumn -- 18. "I Believe in Public Justice" -- 19. "There Is Nothing Secret That Shall Not Be Made Known" -- 20. "A Malicious and Gross Libel" -- 21. "The Great Presidential Battle" -- 22. "The Red Trophy of Her Virginity" -- 23. "They Treat Me There like a Dog" -- 24. "A Gross Scandal ... Helped by a Gross Blunder." -- 25. "Stop Their Press, Perhaps -- but Their Tongues, Never!" -- 26. "Then Is Our Country a Despotism" -- 27. "Paradise for Murderers" -- 28. "What Can I Do, What Can I Do?" -- Part VI: The New Year, 1873 -- 29. "The Naked Truth" -- 30. "Special Agent, P.O. Dept." -- 31. "God Knows I Am Not the Man" -- 32. "The Awful Toilet for the Gallows" -- 33. "Today Is a Good Day to Talk About Heaven" -- 34. "Pronounced Dead" -- 35. "The Gallows Is Accordingly Cheated" -- 36. "Denominational Argument" . -- 37. "Reformation or Revolution-Which?" -- Epilogue. | |
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