The New Colossus
Greed. Corruption. Murder. New York in 1880 is a hell of a place to make your living.Nellie Bly arrives at age 24 in Manhattan, lacking connections and money, but blessed with an abundance of courage and a skill for reportage. Within ten months she lands two front-page stories on the country’s...
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Greed. Corruption. Murder. New York in 1880 is a hell of a place to make your living.Nellie Bly arrives at age 24 in Manhattan, lacking connections and money, but blessed with an abundance of courage and a skill for reportage. Within ten months she lands two front-page stories on the country’s most widely-read newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. The pugnacious and
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781626812659 (1626812659)
Publisher: Diversion Books
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
This is sort of a DNF combined with 'May pick it up another day'.It's not awful, but it's completely bi-polar. As a straight-up historical recount it would be fine, as a fictional recount it would be fine, but this combination of the two just comes off as muddled.While in the middle of some strong c...