So if your looking a better than average read pick up this book! The part of the book that describes Bellevue and how the patients were "treated" is so realistic that at times you can't believe it's true. You can almost smell the city of NY it's described so well and the characters that make up the era (1880's).
Right now I'm only on chapter 13 and with each chapter it get's better and better. I love books that move along, a page turner and one that's hard to put down. But I was into the first chapter and that's all "she wrote". You can almost smell the city of NY it's described so well and the characters that make up the era (188 I had read another book about Nellie Bly but forgot about it and when I started this book I thought no way I'm going to read her story again. I had read another book about Nellie Bly but forgot about it and when I started this book I thought no way I'm going to read her story again. Is America's welcoming lady, the Statue of Liberty, opening our country's arms with words written by a lesbian immigrant? Sounds like a Nellie Bly investigation to me. Now I want to read more about Nellie Bly. There are some big names here and some significant historical events and scandals. Goldberg provides historical notes at the end broken down by chapter that separates some fact from fiction. Blended enough history with believable dialogue for the time period to pull off an interesting and fun historical mystery. Is America's welcoming lady, the Statue of Liberty, opening our country's arms with words written by a lesbian immigran Smart. As the pieces fall into place Bly uncovers layer after layer of corruption, getting closer to a dangerous core-and to the truth.more Outgunned and ignoring her contemptuous all-male colleagues, Bly has only two real allies: a doctor who uses scientific techniques to establish criminal behavior, and a theater critic with unlimited access to underground New York. Her investigation leads to tense encounters with some of the most powerful and ruthless men of the time, in an era where elected officials are bought and sold, and where greed runs rampant on an unregulated Wall Street. The pugnacious and voluble Pulitzer is so impressed that he assigns her to get to the bottom of a murder that has confounded the police-the untimely death of his friend Emma Lazarus, the controversial poet and activist.
Within ten months she lands two front-page stories on the country’s most widely-read newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. Nellie Bly arrives at age 24 in Manhattan, lacking connections and money, but blessed with an abundance of courage and a skill for reportage.
New York in 1880 is a hell of a place to make your living.
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