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1916: Norma Wallace, age group 15, arrived in New Orleans. Captivating and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 experienced opened up what became a renowned house of prostitution. There she interested a steady blast of governors, gangsters, and movie stars until she was arrested at last in 1962. Soon before she passed on in 1974, she tape-recorded her memory - the scandalous reviews of a powerful girl with the city's politicians in her pocket and whose buffs included the 25-year-old boy-next-door, whom she wedded at age group 64. With those tapes and original research, Christine Wiltz chronicles Norma's surge and show up with the interpersonal record of New Orleans. Heavy with the vice and problem that flourished there, Wiltz resurrects a vanished hidden knowledge world.