Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

by Betsy Prioleau

Book Overview

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 York Times Book Review).

Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the country's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468314505
• ISBN13: 9781468314502
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"