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Author Self-Published
April 2016
On Sale: April 18, 2016
Featuring: Potter Palmer; Cissy Palmer
300 pages
ISBN: 0996013121
EAN: 9780996013123
Kindle: B01C348KTS
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Historical
Born to society and a life of privilege, Bertha Honoré
married Potter Palmer, a wealthy entrepreneur who called her
Cissy. Neither dreamed the direction the other’s life would
take. He built the Palmer House Hotel, still famed today,
and became one of the major robber barons of the city,
giving generously to causes of which he approved. She put
philanthropy into words, going into shanty neighborhoods,
inviting factory girls to her home, working at Jane Addams’
settlement Hull House, supporting women’s causes. It was a time of tremendous change and conflict in Chicago
as the city struggled to put its swamp-water beginnings
behind it and become a leading urban center. A time of the
Great Fire of 1871, the Haymarket Riots, and the triumph of
the Columbian Exposition. Potter and Cissy handled these events in diverse ways.
Fascinating characters people these pages along with Potter
and Cissy—Carter Harrison, frequent mayor of the city; Harry
Collins, determined to be a loser; Henry Honoré, torn
between loyalties to the South and North; Daniel Burnham,
architect of the new Chicago—and many others. The Gilded Cage is a fictional exploration of the lives of
these people and of the Gilded Age in Chicago history.
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