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

By Althea McDowell Altemus, Robin F. Bachin (Editor), Robin F. Bachin (Noted by), Robin F. Bachin (Afterword)
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By Althea McDowell Altemus, Robin F. Bachin (Editor), Robin F. Bachin (Noted by), Robin F. Bachin (Afterword)
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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.

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