Download or read book Gold Coast Madam written by Rose Laws and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago, 1988. I was 52 years old, 5'4" tall, and 130 pounds, with red hair and a 36DDD bust, enjoying dramatic Lake Michigan and skyline views from my 21st-floor apartment in the landmark Lake Point Towers building. I had never felt more alive. I was Chicago's reigning madam, providing $400 an hour call girls to Chicago's business owners, traders, lawyers, judges, politicians, mobsters, pro athletes, and Hollywood stars at addresses all over Chicago's downtown and Gold Coast. Vice was on their way up--the doorman had tipped me off. I started thinking back on my life, where I came from, and how I ever got to where I was now. I began life the youngest of nine on a primitive farm in the backwoods of Tennessee. Seeking to make my own way in the world I would meet and marry a man from Cicero, Illinois. Soon I was pregnant eight times in eight years, malnourished, and beaten--once nearly to death. That’s when I left. When I recovered and returned for my five kids, I discovered they'd been put in a brutal orphanage. It took me years to get them back. God knows why I got into this business. It was to save my kids. But I chose to stay. I enjoyed it, I was good at it, and I’d still do it today if I could... From my earliest days as a hanky-panky entrepreneur in the 1960s--renting rooms by the hour at the Addison Motel--others took notice. Playboy, Penthouse, the Sybaris. My adventures took me to all over the Western Suburbs, to Atlanta, Savannah, and the Oak Brook Polo Fields, and eventually to the nightclubs, bars, yachts, and penthouses of Chicago’s Gold Coast. I’d work in this business until 2002 when the FBI busted me and I served 17 months in federal prison. Now I’m retired, living in Florida, and spending my days like many seniors here, walking, playing with my grandchildren, going to church. Let me take you back to my days of juggling three sugar daddies, living and breathing sex, providing the city’s elite with beautiful women, having loads of cash and tons of fun, and experiencing the joys and heartaches of a life on the edge, lived to its fullest.
Download or read book Chicago s Gold Coast written by Wilbert Jones and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Join authors Wilbert Jones, Maureen V. O'Brien, and Kathleen Willis Morton, longtime residents of the Gold Coast, on an engrossing journey through the neighborhood's history. Includes archival images along with the more contemporary images of photographer Bob Dowey.
Download or read book On Her Own Ground written by A'Lelia Bundles and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.
Download or read book Catch Your Breath A Brother s Best Friend Chicago Irish Family Romance written by Shannyn Schroeder and published by Shannyn Schroeder. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this brother's best friend, grumpy-sunshine steamy Chicago Irish Family romance by author Shannyn Schroeder. As kids, they steered clear of each other. But they aren't kids anymore... Reporter Moira O'Leary is a professional extrovert—a social butterfly who can blend into any crowd. So, seeing her childhood crush again (all grown-up, grumpy, and unreasonably sexy) shouldn't rattle her. But it does. He does. And for some reason, he always has... Undercover cop Jimmy O'Malley knows his best friend's little sister is off-limits. Forbidden. But the longer she helps him with his current case, the harder it is to remember why he needs to keep his mind (and hands) off her... When their shared investigation takes a dangerous turn, it's up to Jimmy to keep Moira safe. The only question remaining is whether the most pressing danger is to her life—or her heart. Catch Your Breath, book 4 in The O’Leary Family series, is a contemporary steamy, grumpy-sunshine, brother's best friend romance. This series is full of big, Irish families, even bigger emotions, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Download today and welcome to the Chicago Irish neighborhood! Similar authors: Anna Castor, Adriana Locke, Claire Kingsley, Melissa Foster, Roni Loren, Carly Phillips, Lainey Davis, Erin Nicholas, Samantha Chase
Download or read book Mediators Contract Men and Colonial Capital written by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of labor relations, particularly the interactions of recruitment agents and migrant workers, in the mining concessions of Wassa, Gold Coast Colony, 1879 to 1909.
Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by M. Therson Cofie and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 1952-07-07 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madam written by Libbie Hawker and published by Running Rabbit Press. This book was released on with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city on the verge of collapse. A woman ahead of her time. Seattle, 1888. Economic ruin and dangerous riots have stripped this once-booming city of its former glories, leaving a near-empty husk. The town is ripe for reinvention, if any person has the guts - and the capital - to make Seattle their own. Miss Lou Graham, recently arrived from San Francisco, intends to rebuild Seattle from the ground up. She has ample wealth, wits, and courage to take on the powerful Reformers, the political party that have ushered Seattle to the brink of disaster. But when she meets Amber, the tempestuous “fallen woman” who captures her heart, Lou must choose between love and her dreams of success. A lady rescuing the city is scandalous enough; will anyone in Seattle deign to work with a lady who loves other women? As Lou struggles to revive the city and to confront her own desires, she is joined by new friends, each facing trials of their own. Jiayi still suffers from the aftermath of the anti-Chinese riots, which stranded her in Seattle two years before. Emerson must hide his past infamy from his well-bred fiancée. Lauretta, haunted by a tragic loss, embarks on an ill-advised quest to adopt a neglected child. And Amber, Lou Graham's secret love, strives to break her addiction to laudanum before the court takes her daughter away. When an unfathomable disaster strikes Seattle, neither Lou nor her friends can hide any longer. Deception and shame will be burned away, leaving truth to rise from the ashes. With the scope of a Michener novel and an unforgettable cast of characters, Libbie Hawker returns to historic Seattle, the setting of her best-seller Mercer Girls, finalist for the 2017 Willa Award.
Download or read book Consuming Behaviours written by Erika Rappaport and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twentieth-century Britain, consumerism increasingly defined and redefined individual and social identities. New types of consumers emerged: the idealized working-class consumer, the African consumer and the teenager challenged the prominent position of the middle and upper-class female shopper. Linking politics and pleasure, Consuming Behaviours explores how individual consumers and groups reacted to changes in marketing, government control, popular leisure and the availability of consumer goods. From football to male fashion, tea to savings banks, leading scholars consider a wide range of products, ideas and services and how these were marketed to the British public through periods of imperial decline, economic instability, war, austerity and prosperity. The development of mass consumer society in Britain is examined in relation to the growing cultural hegemony and economic power of the United States, offering comparisons between British consumption patterns and those of other nations. Bridging the divide between historical and cultural studies approaches, Consuming Behaviours discusses what makes British consumer culture distinctive, while acknowledging how these consumer identities are inextricably a product of both Britain's domestic history and its relationship with its Empire, with Europe and with the United States.
Download or read book Threadbare written by Anne Elizabeth Moore and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered who makes your clothes? Who sells them? How much they get paid? How the fashion and sex industries are intertwined?Threadbare draws the connections between the international sex and garment trades and human trafficking in a beautifully illustrated comics series. Anne Elizabeth Moore, in reports illustrated by top-notch comics creators, pulls at the threads of gender, labor, and cultural production to paint a concerning picture of a human rights in a globalized world. Moore's reporting, illustrated by members of the Ladydrawers Comics Collective, takes the reader from the sweatshops of Cambodia to the traditional ateliers of Vienna, from the life of a globetrotting supermodel to the warehouses of large clothing retailers, from the secondhand clothing industry to the politics of the sex trade. With thoughtful illustrations of women's stories across the sex and garment supply chain, this book offers a practical guide to a growing problem few truly understand.Featuring the work of Leela Corman, Julia Gfrörer, Simon Häussle, Delia Jean, Ellen Lindner, and Melissa Mendes.
Download or read book The Compound written by Clement Amadi and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COMPOUND: Is a story about Marshall, who grew up in the village of Alaoji, his mother’s home village near Aba, in Abia State, Nigeria. He did not know who his father was. Marshall goes to reside with his stepmother Mbonu, at Okokwu village. Mbonu, who knew that her son, who was abroad on studies, the owner of the Compound, would never approve of the idea, to adopt a twenty four years old man, refused to inform him that, a stranger had joined them in the Compound. The struggles of Marshall who sought for his identity, and the identities of his four sisters for recognition, existence, womanizing, romance, pretences, and summons, forms the centre of the story. After about fifteen years of what seemed normalcy in Marshall’s life at Okokwu village, he committed abomination, and he was driven into exile.
Download or read book Madam How and Lady Why Or First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains some basic "hows and whys" in natural history and geology.
Download or read book O Learys Box Set 4 6 written by Shannyn Schroeder and published by Shannyn Schroeder. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Catch Your Breath As kids they steered clear of one another. That was then—this is now. As a dedicated reporter, Moira O'Leary has access to Chicago's swankiest affairs. With her confidence and style, she blends right in with the elite crowd. But when her childhood crush starts popping up at posh events, she struggles to keep her cool. Undercover cop Jimmy O'Malley has always tried to avoid his best friend's little sister. Something about Moira spelled trouble. Just as their chemistry ignites, Moira gets dangerously close to his investigation. Now, it's up to Jimmy to keep her safe. Can childhood crushes lead to breathless desire? 2. Just a Taste Grief brought them together. Will love seal the deal? Still reeling from her father’s death, Carmen Delgado has no idea what it means to have dreams of her own. But when sexy Liam O’Leary inherits a share in her dad’s successful food truck, Carmen is suddenly free to explore her life—never expecting Liam to provide a tempting path. His Irish charm can be irresistible. After just a taste, will Carmen find what she didn’t realize she needs? 3. Hold Me Close Taming a spirited, fun-loving O'Leary may be harder than he realized... After more than a year in Ireland, Maggie O'Leary is finally coming back to Chicago with a plan for her future. Confronting the tragedy that destroyed her is her first step. Luckily, her best friend, Shane Callahan, is her biggest support—and lovable in a way she doesn’t remember. Shane will do anything to protect Maggie. But when Maggie boldly tells him that she wants him to help her conquer her final fear—sex—Shane knows a single night together won't be possible. The idea of a spirited Maggie in his bed is everything, but will she believe he wants her heart, too?
Download or read book Belle Cora written by Phillip Margulies and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the home where Arabella Godwin was raised it is forbidden to speak her name, and her picture is turned to the wall. But in the turbulent America of the 1850s, everyone knows her as "Belle Cora," madam of San Francisco's finest bordello. Judges and senators do her bidding; a vicious newspaper editor plots her downfall; a preacher looks at her from across his pulpit and tries to forget that once she was his wife. Merchant's daughter, farm girl, prostitute, mother, madam, murderess, avenger, protector—she has worn all these masks: the only thing that never changes is her tireless pursuit of the one man who can see her for who she really is.
Download or read book Making an African City written by Jennifer Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making an African City, Jennifer Hart traces the way that British colonial officials, Accra Town Council members, and a diverse group of technocrats used regulation to define what an "acceptable" city looked like. Unlike cities elsewhere on the continent, Accra had a long history of urbanism that predated British colonial presence. By criminalizing some activities and privileging others, colonial officials sought to marginalize indigenous practices of Accra residents and shape the development of a new, "modern" city. Hart argues, however, that residents regularly pushed back, protesting regulations, refusing to participate in newly developed systems, reappropriating infrastructure, demanding rights to city services, and asserting their own informal vision for the future of the city. While urban plans and regulations ultimately failed to substantively remake the city, their effects were and are still felt by urban residents, who are often subject to but not served by urban infrastructure. Making an African City explores how the informalization of Accra's development was a historical process, not a natural and self-evident phenomenon, which connects the history of the city with the history of urban development and the growth of technocracy around the world.
Download or read book Streeterville written by Wayne Klatt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madam Valentino written by Michael Thomas Morris and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of a fascinating woman--a designer, playwright, actress, and spiritualist--thestory of Winifred Shaughnessy, known to the world as Natacha Ra mbova, unfolds as a riveting tale of art, sex, and money. The daughter of a Utah federal marshall, she acquired a job as set and costume designer working on the films of her lover, and soon husband, Rudolph Valentino. Splendid vintage photos enhance this remarkable biography. 165 duotones. 15 full-color illustrations.
