Sex and the City Circa 1890: Echoes of Today’s Daily Dish
Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York , by M.H. Dunlop. William Morrow, 296 pages, $25.
When the gulf between rich and poor is broadest, scandal blossoms. This was New York in the 1890′s: flush from a two-decade boom, stunned by a Wall Street panic early in 1893, spiraling into a century-ending depression. Read More
