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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America Hardcover - 2016

by Althea McDowell Altemus; Robin Faith Bachin (Editor); Notes by Robin Faith Bachin


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  • Title Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America
  • Author Althea McDowell Altemus; Robin Faith Bachin (Editor); Notes by Robin Faith Bachin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2016-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780226423593 / 022642359X
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 1 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Nineteen twenties, Working mothers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016014271
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Althea McDowell Altemus (1885-1965) was born into a family of factory workers in Woodstock, Illinois. She was married in 1910 and divorced in 1917, prompting her to work as a secretary in the years that followed. Robin F. Bachin is the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History and assistant provost for civic and community engagement at the University of Miami. She is the author of Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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New. Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York during the late teens and 1920s. Alongside her we rub elbows with movie stars, artists, and high-profile businessmen, and experience lavish estate parties that routinely defied the laws of Prohibition. Beginning with her employment as a private secretary to James Deering of International Harvester, whom she describes as "probably the world's oldest and wealthiest bachelor playboy," Altemus tells us much about high society during the time, taking us inside Deering's glamorous Miami estate, Vizcaya, an Italianate mansion worthy of Gatsby himself. Later, we meet her other notable employers, including Samuel Insull, president of Chicago Edison; New York banker S. W. Straus; and real estate… Read More
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