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A dirty year : sex, suffrage, and scandal in gilded age New York / Bill Greer.
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- ISBN: 9781641602518
- Physical Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2020.
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| Subject: | New York (N.Y.) > History > 1865-1898. United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900. New York (State) > History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Pease Public Library | 974.7104 GREER
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A Dirty Year : Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York
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Table of Contents
A Dirty Year : Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Part I | The New Year, 1872 | |
| 1 | State of the City | p. 3 |
| Part II | Winter | |
| 2 | "I've Got You Now" | p. 15 |
| 3 | "Bravo! My Dear Woodhull" | p. 32 |
| 4 | "These Heartless and Unscrupulous Specimens of Human Depravity" | p. 44 |
| 5 | "The Female Form Divine in Various and Picturesque Attitudes" | p. 53 |
| 6 | Everyone Enjoys a Good Party | p. 61 |
| Part III | Spring | |
| 7 | Black Friday | p. 65 |
| 8 | "In Due Time Ye Shall Reap If Ye Faint Not" | p. 73 |
| 9 | "Tit for Tat" | p. 83 |
| 10 | Howe's Magic | p. 93 |
| 11 | "From This Convention Will Go Forth a Tide of Revolution" | p. 99 |
| 12 | An Afternoon in the Park | p. 108 |
| Part IV | Summer | |
| 13 | "A Piebald Presidency" | p. 115 |
| 14 | "Too Indecent to Be Herein Set Forth" | p. 121 |
| 15 | "Society ... Will Have Its Ghastly Meal of Curiosity" | p. 127 |
| 16 | "Relief from Trouble" | p. 136 |
| 17 | "Worth a Hot Night in the Theater" | p. 138 |
| Part V | Autumn | |
| 18 | "I Believe in Public Justice" | p. 143 |
| 19 | "There Is Nothing Secret That Shall Not Be Made Known" | p. 154 |
| 20 | "A Malicious and Gross Libel" | p. 160 |
| 21 | "The Great Presidential Battle" | p. 168 |
| 22 | "The Red Trophy of Her Virginity" | p. 174 |
| 23 | "They Treat Me There like a Dog" | p. 181 |
| 24 | "A Gross Scandal ... Helped by a Gross Blunder" | p. 184 |
| 25 | "Stop Their Press, Perhaps; but Their Tongues, Never!" | p. 187 |
| 26 | "Then Is Our Country a Despotism" | p. 190 |
| 27 | "Paradise for Murderers" | p. 192 |
| 28 | "What Can I Do, What Can I Do?" | p. 196 |
| Part VI | The New Year, 1873 | |
| 29 | "The Naked Truth" | p. 203 |
| 30 | "Special Agent, P. O. Dept." | p. 208 |
| 31 | "God Knows I Am Not the Man" | p. 212 |
| 32 | "The Awful Toilet for the Gallows" | p. 214 |
| 33 | "Today Is a Good Day to Talk About Heaven" | p. 218 |
| 34 | "Pronounced Dead" | p. 225 |
| 35 | "The Gallows Is Accordingly Cheated" | p. 232 |
| 36 | "Denominational Argument" | p. 236 |
| 37 | "Reformation or Revolution-Which?" | p. 240 |
| Epilogue | p. 245 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 251 | |
| A Note on Sources | p. 253 | |
| Notes | p. 255 | |
| Bibliography | p. 269 | |
| Index | p. 273 |
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