Sin in the Second City : madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America's soul / Karen Abbott.
A vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity. Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago at the dawn of the 20th century, the Club welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons into a stately double mansion, and the Everleigh sisters treated their girls far better than most madams. But not everyone appreciated their attempts to elevate the industry. Their most daunting foes were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the country into a frenzy with lurid tales of "white slavery"--the allegedly rampant practice of kidnapping young girls and forcing them into brothels. This furor shaped America's sexual culture and had repercussions all the way to the White House, including the formation of the FBI.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 1400065305
- ISBN: 9781400065301
- Physical Description: xxiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2007.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-339) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Author's Note: The Girls Who Disappeared xi -- Cast of Characters xv -- Prologue: Angels of the Line xix -- Part 1 Scarlet Sisters Everleigh -- Striped Skunk and Wild Onions 2 -- Another Uncle Tom's Cabin 14 -- Getting Everleighed 17 -- Demon of Lust Lies in Wait 28 -- Lovely Little Lies 31 -- Stories Everyone Knew 47 -- Lords and Ladies of the Levee 51 -- Great in Religion, Great in Sin 64 -- Knowing Your Balzac 67 -- Invocation 83 -- Millionaire Playboy Shot-Accident or Murder? 88 -- Part 2 Flesh and Bone, Body and Soul -- Midnight Toil and Peril 100 -- Ultra Decollete and Other Evils 107 -- Brilliant Entrance to Hell Itself 114 -- Tragedy of Mona Marshall 119 -- Men and Their Baser Mischiefs 128 -- Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission 139 -- More Immoral Than Heathen China 141 -- Organizer 153 -- It Don't Never Get Good Until Three in the Morning 160 -- Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission 175 -- Judgment Days 177 -- Have You a Girl to Spare? 184 -- Dispatch from the U.S. Immigration Commission 191 -- So Many Nice Young Men 193 -- Immoral Purposes, Whatever Those Are 204 -- Part 3 Fighting for the Protection of Our Girls -- Millionaire Playboy Dead-Morphine or Madam? 210 -- Girls Going Wrong 218 -- A Lost Soul 225 -- Social Evil in Chicago 231 -- Painted, Peroxided, Bedizened 239 -- You Get Everything in a Lifetime 247 -- Dangerous Elements 259 -- Just How Wicked 270 -- Fallen Is Babylon 279 -- Little Lost Sister 285.
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