Gilded Age Gossip

The #GildedAge was a time of noblesse oblige, railroads, steel mills, mines and…blackmail? With #TownTopics a copy of which you can spot in #HBOGildedAge series, the American newspaper started to see blackmail come into the fold under colorful figure #ColonelWilliamMann .

Sources:

Laura Claridge, #EmilyPost , Random House: 2008

Wiki Family Tree, "Harold Richard #Vynne" , https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vynne-3

Logan, Andy (1965). The Man Who Robbed the Robber Barons: The Story of Colonel #WilliamdAltonMann War Hero, Profiteer, Inventor, and #Blackmailer Extraordinary. W. W. Norton. LCC PN4874 M477 L6

Joe Pompeo, "The Shocking True Story", Town & Country Magazine,
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a62807688/town-topics-gilded-age-william-dalton-mann/

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