{"id":40416,"date":"2023-07-26T20:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-37758452\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:41:43","slug":"id-37758452","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediabooks.org\/books\/id-37758452\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz (ePUB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><b>The \u201craunchy, hilarious, and thrilling\u201d true story of the incomparable Norma Wallace, proprietor of a notorious 1920s New Orleans brothel (NPR). <\/b><\/p>\n<p> Norma Wallace grew up fast. In 1916, at fifteen years old, she went to work as a streetwalker in New Orleans\u2019 French Quarter. By the 1920s, she was a \u201clandlady\u201d\u2014or, more precisely, the madam of what became one of the city\u2019s most lavish brothels. It was frequented by politicians, movie stars, gangsters, and even the notoriously corrupt police force. But Wallace acquired more than just repeat customers. There were friends, lovers .\u00a0.\u00a0. and also enemies.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Wallace\u2019s romantic interests ran the gamut from a bootlegger who shot her during a fight to a famed bandleader to the boy next door, thirty-nine years her junior, who became her fifth husband. She knew all of the Crescent City\u2019s dirty little secrets, and used them to protect her own interests\u2014she never got so much as a traffic ticket, until the early 1960s, when District Attorney Jim Garrison decided to clean up vice and corruption. After a jail stay, Wallace went legitimate as successfully as she had gone criminal, with a lucrative restaurant business\u2014but it was love that would undo her in the end.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/><i>The Last Madam<\/i> combines original research with Wallace\u2019s personal memoirs, bringing to life an era in New Orleans history rife with charm and decadence, resurrecting \u201ca secret world, like those uncovered by Luc Sante and James Ellroy\u201d (<i>Publishers Weekly<\/i>). It reveals the colorful, unforgettable woman who reigned as an underworld queen and \u201ccapture[s] perfectly the essential, earthy complexity of the most fascinating city on this continent\u201d (Robert Olen Butler).<br \/> \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>. First published December 31, 1999. Original format: Kindle Edition. 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