{"product_id":"9781627798242","title":"Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sparkling biography of the original blonde whom gentlemen preferred, a woman who made a career of marrying millionaires and became the first tabloid celebrity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of America's most talked about personalities during the Jazz Age, Peggy Hopkins Joyce was the quintessential gold digger, the real-life Lorelei Lee. Married six times, to several millionaires and even a count, Joyce had no discernible talent except self-promotion. A barber's daughter from Norfolk, Virginia, who rose to become a Ziegfeld Girl and, briefly, a movie star, Joyce was the precursor of the modern celebrity-a person famous for being famous. Her scandalous exploits-spending a million dollars in a week, conducting torrid love affairs with the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Walter Chrysler-were irresistible to the new breed of tabloid journalists in search of sensation and to audiences hungry for the possibilities her life seemed to promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce's march across Broadway, Hollywood, and the nation's front pages was only slowed by the true nemesis of the glamour girl: old age. She died in 1957, alone and forgotten-until now. In prose as vibrant as its subject, Constance Rosenblum's \u003ci\u003eGold Digger\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the woman who singularly epitomized this confident and hedonistic era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184550658288,"sku":"9781627798242","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627798242_p0.jpg?v=1769905457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627798242","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}