title: American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
author:  Karen Abbott 
description: <b>Praise for <i>American Rose</i>:<br /></b><br />"Abbott creates a brainy striptease similar to the one her subject may have performed: uncovering doozies in one chapter about Lee's outrageous life, followed in the next by the less salacious (but always captivating) details about how New York City's Minsky brothers, who played a crucial role in Lee's stardom, built their burlesque empire." <i>Newsday</i><br /><br />"At its core, <i>American Rose</i> is a haunting portrait of a woman 'giving what she has to, keeping all she can,' offering her audiences a sassy, confident self while making sure they would never know the damaged soul who created her." <i>The</i> <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />"<i>American Rose</i> is the rare biography that captures the imagination and doesn't let go. It would scare the bejeesus out of Gypsy Rose Lee, and it's guaranteed to enthrall readers." <i>Book Page<br /><br /></i>"[Abbott's] portrait of the famed stripper is both darker and more inspiring than the famed stripper's version of her life as filtered by Broadway or Hollywood." <i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br /></i><br /><b><br />Praise for Karen Abbotts <i>Sin in the Second City</i></b><br /><br />A delicious history . . . a lush love letter to the underworld . . . [Abbott] describes the Levees characters in such detail that its easy to mistake this meticulously researched history for literary fiction.<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br /><br />[Abbotts] research enables the kind of vivid description  la fellow journalist Erik Larsons The <i>Devil in the White City</i> that makes what could be a dry historic account an intriguing read.<i>The Seattle Times</i><br /><br />[A] satisfyingly lurid tale . . . Change the hemlines, add 100 years, and the book could be filed under current affairs.<i>USA Today</i><br /><br />Assiduously researched . . . Even this books minutiae . . . make for good storytelling.<i>The New York Times</i><br /><br />A colorful history of old Chicago that reads like a novel.<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br /><br />Lavish . . . an immensely readable book.<i>The Wall Street Journal </i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictional, and any
  resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events,
  or locales, is entirely coincidental.
  
  The Guise of a Gentleman original copyright© 2009 by Donna Hatch
  
  Second copyright© 2013 Donna Hatch
  
  Cover Art by Lex Valenine
  
  Originally published by The Wild Rose Press
  
  Publishing History:
  
  First English Tea Rose Edition, 2010 Print
  
  ISBN 1-60154-701-3
  
  Re-published by Mirror Lake Press, 2013
  
  Digital ISBN 9781301364480
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose
  Press except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or
  reviews.
  
  Published in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Other books by Donna Hatch
  
  The Rogue Hearts Series:
  
  The Strang