William Elliott Hazelgrove

Greed in the Gilded Age

The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

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Produktbeschreibung

She might be one of the greatest con artists of all time. Cassie Chadwick conned millions of dollars out of banks by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie. It was a simple but brilliant con that reflects the ethos and the high-flying greed of the Gilded Age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781538142905
• ISBN-10: 1538142902
• Artikelnr.: 59986799

Autorenporträt

By William Elliott Hazelgrove

Inhaltsangabe

A Note to the Reader
Prologue
Gilded Age
Chapter 1: The Trial of the Century
Chapter 2: The Chase
Chapter 3: The Immigrants
Chapter 4: A Genteel Victorian Twist
Chapter 5: The Cauldron of Greed
Chapter 6: The Tombs
Chapter 7: Mrs. Bastado
Chapter 8: The High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance
Chapter 9: Lady Liberty
Chapter 10: The Good Doctor
Chapter 11: Madame DeVere
Chapter 12: The Bank Failure
Chapter 13: The Homestead
Chapter 14: The Gold Standard
Chapter 15: The Carnegie Subpoena
Chapter 16: The Doctor and His Wife
Chapter 17: The Queen of Cleveland
Chapter 18: The Broken Man
Chapter 19: Setting the Hook
Chapter 20: The Trial of the Century Begins
Chapter 21: The Bait
Chapter 22: Survival of the Fittest
Chapter 23: The Switch
Chapter 24: The Work of a School Boy
Chapter 25: The Good Pastor
Chapter 26: Geronimo
Chapter 27: Cashing In
Chapter 28: A Jury of Farmers
Chapter 29: Amazing Times
Chapter 30: A Conspiracy to Defraud
Chapter 31: The Newton Loan
Chapter 32: Closing Arguments
Chapter 33: The Verdict
Chapter 34: The Sentence
Chapter 35: The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick