Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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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's notorious Levee
district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors,
two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed
moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and
literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty
stunning Everleigh butterflies awaited their arrival. Courtesans
named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the
delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore
Dreiser. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot's earnings
and kept a whipper on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs
made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an
honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac. Not
everyone appreciated the sisters' attempts to elevate the industry.
Rival Levee madams hatched numerous schemes to ruin the Everleighs,
including an attempt to frame them for the death of department
store heir Marshall Field, Jr. But the sisters' most daunting foes
were the Progressive Era reformers, who sent the entire 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 Federal Bureau of Investigation. With a cast of
characters that includes Jack Johnson, John Barrymore, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, Hinky Dink Kenna, and Al
Capone, Sin in the Second City is Karen Abbott's colorful, nuanced
portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters, their world-famous Club,
and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses
and Puritanical roots. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between
brothel keepers and crusading reformers, Sin in the Second City
offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era
propriety to twentieth-century modernity. Visit
www.sininthesecondcity.com to learn more Delicious... Abbott
describes the Levee's characters in such detail that it's easy to
mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.
---- New York Times Book Review Described with scrupulous concern
for historical accuracy...an immensely readable book. ---- Joseph
Epstein, The Wall Street Journal Assiduously researched... even
this book's minutiae makes for good storytelling. ---- Janet
Maslin, The New York TimesKaren Abbott has pioneered sizzle history
in this satisfyingly lurid tale. Change the hemlines, add 100
years, and the book could be filed under current affairs. ---- USA
Today A rousingly racy yarn. -Chicago Tribune A colorful history of
old Chicago that reads like a novel... a compelling and eloquent
story. ---- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Gorgeously detailed
---- New York Daily NewsAt last, a history book you can bring to
the beach. ---- The Philadelphia Inquirer Once upon a time, Chicago
had a world class bordello called The Everleigh Club. Author Karen
Abbott brings the opulent place and its raunchy era alive in a book
that just might become this years The Devil In the White City. ----
Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (cover story) As Abbott's delicious
and exhaustively researched book makes vividly clear, the Everleigh
Club was the Taj Mahal of bordellos. ---- Chicago Sun Times The
book is rich with details about a fast-and-loose Chicago of the
early 20th century... Sin explores this world with gusto, throwing
light on a booming city and exposing its shadows. ---- Time Out
Chicago Abbott's] research enables the kind of vivid description a
la fellow journalist Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City that
make what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.-
Seattle Times Abbott tells her story with just the right mix of
relish and restraint, providing a piquant guide to a world of
sexuality ---- The Atlantic A rollicking tale from a more vibrant
time: history to a ragtime beat. - Kirkus Reviews With gleaming
prose and authoritative knowledge Abbott elucidates one of the most
colorful periods in American history, and the result reads like the
very best fiction. Sex, opulence, murder -- What's not to love?
---- Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants A detailed and
intimate portrait of the Ritz of brothels, the famed Everleigh Club
of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Sisters Minna and Ada attracted the
elites of the world to such glamorous chambers as the Room of 1,000
Mirrors, complete with a reflective floor. And isn't Minna's advice
to her resident prostitutes worthy advice for us all: Give, but
give interestingly and with mystery.' ---- Erik Larson, author of
The Devil in the White City Karen Abbott has combined
bodice-ripping salaciousness with top-notch scholarship to produce
a work more vivid than a Hollywood movie. ---- Melissa Fay Greene,
author of There is No Me Without You Sin in the Second City is a
masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all
- a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of
American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book
loudly enough. ---- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng This is
a story of debauchery and corruption, but it is also a story of
sisterhood, and
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