Gilded How Newport Became America's Richest Resort

Name: Gilded How Newport Became America's Richest Resort
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ISBN: 9781118014011

ISBN-10: 1118014014

ISBN-13: 9781118014011

Edition: 2009

Authors: Deborah Davis

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A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the CenturyNewport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the country?s most famous blueblood families-the closest thing we have to royalty-have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Doris Duke, and Klaus and Sunny von Bulow are just a few of the many names who have called the city home. Gilded takes you along as you explore the fascinating heritage of the Newport elite, from its first colonists to the newest of its new…

Book details

List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 8/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Season-1913



The Isle of Peace



Reversal of Fortune



The New Newport


ï¿½Theï¿½ Mrs. Astor



Calculated Moves


Alva



The Cottage Wars


Mamie



Upstairs and Downstairs


Jessie



Members Only



Ladies First


Edith



Fast Times



A Very Good Year


Beatrice



That Sinking Feeling



The Binds That Tie


Eileen



There Goes the Neighborhood



Enemies and Eyesores



Fire Sale



Self-Preservation



All That Jazz


Jackie



What a Swell Party This Is



The Changing of the Guard


Minnie



Anything Goes


Doris



Tourist Attractions



Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?



Everything Old Is New Again



The Season-2008


Afterword


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index