The Last Madam A Life In The New Orleans Underworld Wallace by Wallace, Norma;wiltz, Chris 9781497658509, 1497658500 instant download after payment.

In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and
shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had
opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she
entertained a steady stream of governors, gangsters, and movie stars
until she was arrested at last in 1962. Shortly before she died in 1974,
she tape—recorded her memories-the scandalous stories of a powerful
woman who had the city's politicians in her pocket and whose lovers
included the twenty-five-year-old boy next door, whom she married when
she was sixty-four. Combining those tapes with original research,
Christine Wiltz chronicles not just Norma's rise and fall but also the
social history of New Orleans, thick with the vice and corruption that
flourished there—and, like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Philistines at the Hedgerow, resurrects a vanished secret world.