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"Born in 1853, Jared Flagg was the black sheep of an illustrious New York family. His father, Jared Bradley Flagg, was a noted portraitist and Episcopalian minister who served as Rector of Grace Church, in Brooklyn Heights. His older brothers were prominent, Paris-trained artists. A younger brother became a famous architect, while another went on to found a major Wall Street brokerage. One of his younger sisters married publisher Charles Scribner, II; another was one of the famed ""400"" Manhattan socialites. Jared, Jr., on the other hand, took to the seamier side of American life, instigating any number of illegal schemes, ranging from leasing furnished flats to facilitating prostitution, to finding chorus line and modeling jobs for pretty but talentless young women, to a phony investment scheme that paid 52% a year, to the sale of worthless bonds backed by heavily mortgaged real estate. Frequently penalized for his criminal and unethical activities by the time of his death in 1926, Jared Flagg had barreled his way through Gilded and Jazz Age America, offering a fascinating and heretofore unknown view of how a rising empire evolved through crucial eras in its history."

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Eric B. Easton is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he specialized in Media Law and Legal Writing for more than 25 years. He is founding editor of the Journal of Media Law & Ethics and author of New York Times v. Sullivan: Documentary Supplement, Defending the Masses: A Progressive Lawyer's Battles for Free Speech, and Mobilizing the Press: Defending the First Amendment in the Supreme Court. He is co-author of The Law of Advertising, a multi-volume treatise. Professor Easton is an executive board member and past chair of the Mass Communications Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, and the International Communication Association. He is a past chair of the Maryland State Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, past chair of the Communication Skills Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, and a member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute. He has also directed the Law School's LL.M. in the Law of the United States and chaired the University's Faculty Senate and Institutional Review Board. Before joining the University of Baltimore School of Law, Professor Easton taught media law and other subjects at Loyola University Maryland. He has also taught various aspects of media law at the University of Aberdeen, Shandong University, and the University of the Netherlands Antilles, and was a visiting scholar at the Journalism Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Easton holds a Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, a J.D. from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. from Northwestern University. He was a professional journalist for more than 20 years before joining the academy.

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