# Town Topics: Gossip and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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Podcast: [The Gilded Gentleman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gilded-gentleman-4529654)
Published: 2026-02-17T05:05:00+00:00
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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.

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