'The story of two people who, despite their conventional upbringings, thrived in the raucous decade known as the Gay Nineties, or America's decadent version of the Gilded Age. The daughter of a wagonmaker, Susie Tillett was raised amid the horse and hemp farms of the Kentucky Bluegrass; Arthur Jack was the oldest son and heir of a successful Atlanta merchant. By the time they met in 1892, when they both were in their early thirties, Susie had become...