DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City's Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau

DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City's Gilded Age

Betsy Prioleau

357 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

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Betsy Prioleau’s biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is “an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for” (New...

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