Rich People Behaving Badly

Dick Kreck

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781682750117
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Take a trip back in time to revel in the scandal, murders, infidelities, financial misdeeds, and just plain bad behavior from Colorado's past.
 
Public respectability does not always translate into tidy private lives, and our interest in the naughty behavior of the rich and famous will never be satisfied. Former Denver Post reporter Dick Kreck takes us back through Colorado's history to show that the foibles of people—rich or poor—remain the same. Included are socialites such as Louise Sneed Hill, who created and ruled over Denver's "Sacred 36" circle of society; Jane Tomberlin, who met and fell in love with a "prince" in an elevator at the Brown Palace Hotel; Irene Nolan, who cavorted late into the night with her family priest; and prominent Denver clubman Courtland Dines, who was wounded during a frolic with two silent-screen stars in his Hollywood apartment.
 

Table of contents

• The Great Scandal
• The Wickedest Street
• The Butterfly
• The Flower-Faced Vampire
• The Good Wife
• The Roadhouse Robbery
• The Death of a Salesman
• The Bucket of Blood
• The Dashing Clubman
• The Gangster Who Loved Colorado
• The Iron Lady
• The Perfect Salesman
• The Prince and the Socialite
• The Man Who Could Do No Wrong
• The Queen of Quality Hill