Greed in the Gilded Age

The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

By William Elliott Hazelgrove

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Breaking through boundaries of class, education, and gender, Cassie Chadwick conned at least 2 million dollars, equivalent to about 60 million today, from unsuspecting bankers simply by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan, Andrew Carnegie.

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