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"Raised on a farm, runaway at fourteen, prostitute at fifteen, for Nell Kimball the whorehouse was refuge, livelihood, college education, emancipation. She saw humanity as no-one else could: with its breeches down. She played host to preachers, politicians and businessmen, in a career as whore and madam that spanned almost sixty years of American history. From the languor and elegance of old St Louis, to love and heartache and the squalid clip-joints of New York, to the opulence of the New Orleans madam, this is Nell Kimball's incomparable life, the uninhibited memoirs of a queen of the flesh trade, her own American success story"--