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Very good in Very good jacket [10], 357, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Works Cited. Index. The DJ has minor edge wear. Betsy Prioleau is an American author and cultural historian. Prioleau's books include Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them and Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love, and Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and A Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age. After completing her Ph.D., she taught English and world literature at Manhattan College, where she was an associate tenured professor. She then taught cultural history at New York University Liberal Studies Program. Prioleau regularly appears on radio shows as an expert on seduction and related topics. She was the co-host of Errol Gluck's popular podcast, Gluck Radio from 2013 to 2014 until she left the show to pursue a writing project. Prioleau has written essays, scholarly articles, and four books. Prioleau's first book was titled Circle of Eros: Sexuality in the Work of William Dean Howells. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age is a biography of Mrs. Frank Leslie, the first publishing titan in America and cultural history of the seismic, momentous postbellum years. Prioleau draws from letters and historical sources to reveal the unknown, sensational life of Miriam Leslie, the "Empress of Journalism" who ran the Frank Leslie company for twenty years. A century ahead of her time, she left her multimillion-dollar estate to women's suffrage, a never-equaled amount that guaranteed passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Miriam Leslie (née Folline; after first marriage, Peacock; after second marriage, Squier; after third marriage, Leslie; after fourth marriage, Wilde; claimed title, Baroness de Bazus; June 5, 1836-September 18, 1914) was an American publisher and author. She was the wife of Frank Leslie and the heir to his publishing business, which she developed into a paying concern from a state of precarious

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