Laura Hegan, daughter of New York’s traction king, meets a magazine writer and a parlour socialist in a model tenement on the Lower East Side and learns how her father’s fortune depends on Robert Grimes, the political boss. From Long Island to Wall Street, she confronts her father over the girl crushed by the system that keeps him rich.
Muckraking drama from the author of The Jungle, a sharp picture of money and politics. Download the free EPUB.