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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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Chicago Review Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.