The Social Secretary (eBook, ePUB) - Graham Phillips, David
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The book is essentially the diary of a young woman who was well connected with Washington, D.C. society, but who had fallen on hard times and who had to take a job (in preference to marrying an ass). A couple of her influential friends hooked her up with a new senator from the sticks and his wife. She set about a campaign to make the two of them "factors" in the Washington social scene. As is the case today, Washington is pretty much ruled by wealth and influence. It's about as corrupt a place as you can find.

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The book is essentially the diary of a young woman who was well connected with Washington, D.C. society, but who had fallen on hard times and who had to take a job (in preference to marrying an ass). A couple of her influential friends hooked her up with a new senator from the sticks and his wife. She set about a campaign to make the two of them "factors" in the Washington social scene. As is the case today, Washington is pretty much ruled by wealth and influence. It's about as corrupt a place as you can find.
Autorenporträt
David Graham Phillips was an American novelist and muckraker journalist. Phillips was born in Madison, Ind. After graduating from high school, Phillips enrolled at Asbury College (now DePauw University) and eventually earned a degree from Princeton in 1887. After finishing his studies, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before relocating to New York City, where he was a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, and then a columnist and editor for the New York World until 1902. In his leisure time, he wrote a novel called The Great God Success, which was released in 1901. The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while also writing fiction. In March 1906, Phillips published an article in Cosmopolitan titled "The Treason of the Senate," which exposed campaign contributors who were rewarded by select members of the United States Senate. The story sparked a harsh attack on Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and gave Phillips a lot of national attention. This and other similar pieces contributed to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established popular rather than state-legislative election of U.S. Senators. David Graham Phillips is well-known for conducting one of the most major investigations into Senate corruption, namely involving the Standard Oil Company.