Zusammenfassung
Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.
‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.
Combining the sexuality and helplessness her gender implied, Chadwick conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie. Playing to their greed, she was able to convince highly educated financiers to loan hundreds of thousands of dollars, on nothing more than a rumor and her word.
She was a product of her time and painting her as a criminal is only one way to look at it. Those times rewarded someone who was smart, inventive, bold, and aggressive. She was able to break through boundaries of class, education, and gender, to beat the men of the one percent at their own game.
Schlagworte
Millionaires Row The greatest con The one percent Queen of Cleveland Andrew Carnegie Banking scam Elizabeth Bigley Gilded age Brilliant con Brilliant scam Con woman HBO Gilded Age Conspicuous consumption Cassie Chadwick Cassie Hoover- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 7–15 Ch02. THE CHASE 7–15
- 38–42 Ch06. THE TOMBS 38–42
- 43–47 Ch07. MRS. BASTADO 43–47
- 54–58 Ch09. LADY LIBERTY 54–58
- 71–75 Ch13. HARD TIME 71–75
- 105–107 Ch21. THE BAIT 105–107
- 112–115 Ch23. THE SWITCH 112–115
- 118–119 Ch25. THE GOOD PASTOR 118–119
- 120–123 Ch26. GERONIMO 120–123
- 124–126 Ch27. CASHING IN 124–126
- 127–129 Ch28. A JURY OF FARMERS 127–129
- 130–135 Ch29. AMAZING TIMES 130–135
- 140–146 Ch31. THE NEWTON LOAN 140–146
- 147–152 Ch32. CLOSING ARGUMENTS 147–152
- 153–156 Ch33. THE VERDICT 153–156
- 157–160 Ch34. THE SENTENCE 157–160
- 167–182 NOTES 167–182
- 183–186 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 183–186
- 187–192 INDEX 187–192
- 193–194 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 193–194
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- „... and went to her home in Cleveland. Again, he felt the warm balm of Millionaires Row. This was real ...” „... pilgrimage once again to Millionaires Row with two lawyers from the bank, and there they were ushered into ...” „... lived on Millionaires Row, gave her a letter of introduction to his brother, a Boston lawyer, “vouching ...”
- „... carriage en-tered Millionaires Row, Euclid Avenue, in Cleveland. This was where the cream of Cleveland ...” „... amazing and easily the richest client on Millionaires Row, Mrs. Cassie Chadwick. It had been just a month ...” „... Millionaires Row, and she was the wife of a very respected doctor who hailed from an old family in Cleveland ...”
- „... , 56; Euclid Avenue, “Millionaires Row,” 79, 81, 91–92, 118; extradition to, 48–53Clingen, Lydia/Lylie ...” „... , 50; inequality in, xiii, 4, 79; and millionaires, 57–58; and women, x, 22, 43–44Goldman, Emma, 90gold ...” „... millionaires: and con, 143; and conspicuous consumption, 57–58; status of, 26; term, 3Minder, Deputy Marshal ...”
- „... was shown to the front row of the gallery. People gasped. He was so small! Andrew Carnegie the titan ...” „... Carnegie saw his good fortune and those of his fellow millionaires, a term that had just entered the ...” „... retainers. . . . The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us ...”
- „... on Millionaires Row as the wife of a successful doctor, who was actually the illegitimate daughter of ...” „... millionaire who was really a bootlegger from nowhere and who would pay the ultimate price for his deception ...”
- „... Millionaires Row, where she lived with Dr. ChadwickThe fabulous Cassie Chadwick at the time of her arrest ...”
- „... others totter. She sent one staid banker to his grave a broken man, lived on Millionaires Row in ...” „... high finance and was able to dupe leaders of banks and mil-lionaires and become one of the lightning ...” „... HAZELGROVEROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham • Boulder • New York • LondonPublished by Rowman & Littlefield An imprint of ...”
- „... preferred church for families on Millionaires Row, and many of her neighbors took great pride in dressing to ...”
- „... that it may all be cleared up at once.”11 Dr. Chadwick’s home on “Millionaires Row” had been taken for ...”
- „... followed from this amazing woman, the wife of respected, Dr. Chadwick, who lived on Millionaires Row in ...”
- „... . She lacked the confidence required to interact with the grande dames of “Millionaires Row.” To her the ...”
- „... a mansion at 1824 Euclid Avenue along “Millionaires Row,” where other families had elected to build ...”