The Grandes Dames - Hardcover
Portrays the wealthy and powerful women--Astors, Rockefellers, McCormicks, Belmonts, Robinsons, Crowells, Gardners, and others--who, linked by money, marriage, privilege, and power, dominated social and cultural life in America between the 1870s and the 1940s
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Stephen Birmingham is a preeminent social historian, known for his books The Right People, Real Lace, and The Grandees. He allows his reader unparalleled access to the most exclusive society sets, and tells their stories with great warmth and wit.
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Crisply written...full of color, incident and character, and thoroughly entertaining, this book...goes down like a dozen oysters. (Baltimore Sun)
An interesting and colorful account of [the] fabulous ladies whose sense of noblesse obligé and "personal theater" held sway from the 1880s to World War II. (Library Journal)
An interesting and colorful account of [the] fabulous ladies whose sense of noblesse obligé and "personal theater" held sway from the 1880s to World War II. (Library Journal)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0671255851
- ISBN 13 9780671255855
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