Title Big bosses : a working girl's memoir of Jazz Age America / Althea McDowell Altemus ; edited and annotated by Robin F. Bachin ; in partnership with Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

Publication Info.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography	B ALTEMUS	Check Shelf

Description	xiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-220).
Contents	Foreword / Joel M. Hoffman -- Big bosses. Wealth ; Chicago ; Pierre Duval ; Sleuths ; Phylander & Company ; Country ; New York ; S.W. Strauss & Company ; Pigeonblood ruby ; Fred F. French & Company ; Miami ; Biscayne Bay -- Afterword: Chronicling the clerical life of Althea Altemus / Robin F. Bachin.
Subject	Businessmen -- United States.
	Rich people -- United States.
	Nineteen twenties.
	Altemus, Althea McDowell, 1885-1965.
	Secretaries -- United States -- Biography.
	Working mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
Subject	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Added Author	Bachin, Robin Faith, editor, writer of added commentary.
ISBN	9780226423593 (cloth : alk. paper)
	022642359X (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780226423623 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	022642362X (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780226423760 (e-book)

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