Episode

Town Topics: Gossip and Scandal in the Gilded Age

Podcast: The Gilded Gentleman
Published: Feb 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 3560
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Summary

The tale of the Gilded Age's most scandalous newspaper Town Topics and the insidious methods by which its publisher manipulated the city's powerful with techniques akin to blackmail.