The Man Who Robbed the Robber Barons

FIRST QUBLISHESD IN 1965 AND VEVER PREVIOUSLY issude in paperbaci，The Man Who Robbed The Robber Barons vivdly recounts the extraordinary，and often infamous，career of Colonel William d’Alton Mann（1839-1920），a larger-than-life，protean scoundrel，whose weekly magazine，Town Topics，reported on the doings of New York’s turn-of-the -century High Socety-and workde a nice little blackmail operation besides。Andy Logan focuses her colorful narraive on the Colonel’s moment of greatest notoriery:when the tables were rurnde on his “soak the rich”swindling。
ANDY LOGAN（1920-2000）joinde The New Yorker in 1942 after graduating from Swarthmore。For twenty-five years，beginning in 1969，she coverde New York City politics in her Around City Hall column。

Book Description
A colorful account of turn-of-the-century New York scandal, by a legendary City Hall reporter and the first woman to write for THE NEW YORKERs Talk of the Town.

From Publishers
This brisk, rollicking biography of a blackguard2 (THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) recounts the notorious career of Colonel William d1Alton Mann, a larger-than-life, protean scoundrel whose TOWN TOPICS was a weekly New York magazine through which the Colonel and his henchmen blackmailed the swells and plutocrats ? the Morgans, the Goulds, the Vanderbilts among them ? of the city1s early-20th-century high society.

From Library Journal
"A nice addition to the literature of roguery," quipped LJ's reviewer (LJ 10/1/65) of this portrait of Col. William D'Alton, publisher of Town Topics, the Journal of Society, which spotlighted the rich and their affairs. D'Alton played both sides: he sold magazines to the lower class, who loved to see the uppercrust with egg on their faces, and accepted money from the wealthy not to run particularly embarrassing items.

About Author
David Remnick was born on October 29, 1958 in Hackensack, N.J. and educated at Princeton University. He began his career at the Washington Post in 1982. In 1992, he became a staff writer for the New Yorker. Remnick's book, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction. The work deals with the last days of the Soviet Union, which Remnick witnessed firsthand as foreign correspondent to Moscow from the Washington Post. Remnick is the author of other works including The Devil Problem (And Other True Stories) published in 1996 and Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia in 1997. His most recent work, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, was published in 1998. David Remnick is married to Esther Fein, a reporter. They have two children, Alexander and Noah.

Introduction
1 The Proprietor
2 “A Nest of Skunks”
3 Ambush
4 From Gettysburg to
5 Carper Bag and Boudoir Car
6 Not for Babes,Prudes
7 “Saunterings”
8 The Witness for the State
9 “Town Topics Convicted”
10 A Gratifying Verdict
11 The Bace of the Book
12 “The Otherwise Pleasant Eventide”
Index