Wicked Newport Sordid Stories from the City by the Sea

Name: Wicked Newport Sordid Stories from the City by the Sea
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ISBN: 9781596293434

ISBN-10: 1596293438

ISBN-13: 9781596293434

Edition: 2008

Authors: Larry Stanford

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Founded by a small band of religious freedom seekers in 1639, Newport, Rhode Island, subsequently became a bustling colonial seaport teeming with artists, sailors, prosperous merchants and, perhaps most distinctively, the ultrarich families of the Gilded Age. Clinging to the lavish coattails of these newly minted millionaires and robber barons was a stream of con artists and hangers-on who attempted to leech off their well-to-do neighbors. From the Vanderbilts to the Dukes, the Astors to the Kennedys, the City by the Sea has served as a sanctuary for the elite-and a hotbed of corruption.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 7/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Larry Stanford, a native of Newport, currently works as an Information Specialist at the Newport Visitors Center. He founded Ghost Tours of Newport in 2002. He has previously published Wicked Newport with The History Press.



Acknowledgements


Introduction


The Mystery Tower


Innocent?


The Symbol of Hospitality?


Karma for the Merchant Prince


America's Richest Family


The Queen of the Queen of Resorts


Wicked Alva


Mrs. Fish


The Playboy Editor


The Swinger Architect


Titanic


Lusitania


The Court Jester's Secret


Curse of the Pharaohs


Be Careful What You Wish For...


Paint It Black


Anchors Away


The Richest Girl in the World


Reversal of Fortune


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