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Author
Language
English
Description
"Recounting her perilous journey through pre-#MeToo sexual politics with grace, dignity, and just the right amount of sass, Paris: The Memoir tracks the evolution of celebrity culture through the story of the figure at its leading edge, full of defining moments and marquee names. Most important, Paris shows us her path to peace while she challenges us to question our role in her story and in our own. Welcome to Paris" --
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Encouraged to be 'winners' from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy's children were the embodiment of ambitious, wholesome Americanism. Yet even within this ebullient group of overachievers, the fourth Kennedy child, the irrepressible Kathleen, stood out. Lively, charismatic, extremely clever, and blessed with graceful athleticism and a sunny disposition, the alluring socialite -- fondly known as 'Kick' -- was a firecracker who effortlessly made friends...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City's Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country--where not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving. It's Gossip Girl meets Six Feet Under, told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy was the incandescent life force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged 'favorite of all the children' and her brother Jack's 'psychological twin.' She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace. The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 369 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor of passion and livelihood outside the home. This alarmed authorities, who feared certain 'over-sexed' women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. Set against this backdrop, The unfit heiress chronicles the fight for inheritance, both genetic and monetary, between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her mother Maryon. In 1934,...