Altemus Althea McDowell Big Bosses: A Working Girl`s Memoir of Jazz Age America 9780226423623

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Автор: Altemus Althea McDowell
Название: Big Bosses: A Working Girl`s Memoir of Jazz Age America
ISBN: 9780226423623
Издательство: Wiley
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ISBN-10: 022642362X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.31 кг.
Дата издания: 11.11.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: , black & white illustrations
Размер: 218 x 140 x 15
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: A working girl`s memoir of jazz age america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition.

Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James Deering of International Harvester, whom she describes as probably the worlds oldest and wealthiest bachelor playboy, Altemus tells us much about high society during the time, taking us inside Deerings glamorous Miami estate, Vizcaya, an Italianate mansion worthy of Gatsby himself. Later, we meet her other notable employers, including Samuel Insull, president of Chicago Edison; New York banker S. W. Straus; and real estate developer Fred F. French. We cinch up our trenchcoats and head out sleuthing in Chicago, hired by the wife of a big boss to find out how he spends his evenings (with, it turns out, a mistress hidden in an apartment within his office, no less). Altemus was also a struggling single mother, a fact she had to keep secret from her employers, and she reveals the difficulties of being a working woman at the time through glimpses into womens apartments, their friendships, and the dangers--sexual and otherwise--that she and others faced. Throughout, Altemus entertains with a tart and self-aware voice that combines the knowledge of an insider with the wit and clarity of someone on the fringe.

Anchored by extensive annotation and an afterword from historian Robin F. Bachin, which contextualizes Altemuss narrative, Big Bosses provides a one-of-a-kind peek inside the excitement, extravagances, and the challenges of being a working woman roaring through the 20s.

Big Bosses: A Working Girl`s Memoir of Jazz Age America, Altemus Althea McDowell