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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon 9781455588749
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.82A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history,... -
Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach by Meryl Gordon 9780547247984
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547247984Author Meryl GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark by Meryl Gordon 9781455512652
Booksplease Price: £23.03Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate,... -
The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington's Most Famous Hostess by Meryl Gordon 9781538751244
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538751244Author Meryl GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher... -
The Lost Diary of M: A Novel by Paul Wolfe 9780062910677
Booksplease Price: £12.52An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer- secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual... -
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University Richard White (Stanford University) 9781324004332
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.33In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the... -
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo 9781982153748
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and... -
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic by Margaret A. Oppenheimer 9781613733806
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £20.18Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail... -
The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise by David K. Randall 9780393240993
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.25Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu's transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart... -
Bittersweet Brooklyn: A Novel by Thelma Adams 9781503904606
Booksplease Price: £9.90In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises-and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder?After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her... -
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City’s Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau 9781419770890
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95Betsy Prioleau's biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is "an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne... -
Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction by Lynne Olson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.55The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypt's ancient temples. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a...