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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The real story behind a very private American fashion icon, Lilly Pulitzer
Today, Lilly Pulitzer's iconic brand of clean-cut, vibrantly printed clothes called "Lillys" can be spotted everywhere. What began decades ago as a snob uniform in Palm Beach became a general fashion craze and, later, an American classic. In contrast to the high visibility of her brand, Lilly Pulitzer has largely kept her tumultuous personal story to herself. Bursting forth...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own father's funeral, which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music, thousands of dollars worth of her mother's favorite flowers, and a personalized eulogy. Starting out as a receptionist, Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief, as well as creating fitting send-offs for some of the city's most high-powered residents. Meyer has...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Madame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly-prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins meteoric rise to success and the man who stood beside her, through every sharp note. Florence was ridiculed...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta 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 shameful, 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 lesbian love...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick, told by her sister with unfailing empathy, sharp insight, and firsthand observations of her whirlwind life"--
Wohl's brother Bobby died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol. After coming across Edie's image in a clip from Warhol's film Outer and Inner Space, Wohl was moved to put her inner dialogue with Bobby on the page in an attempt...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 363 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers. Nobody knew how to live the high life like Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing and handsome men. Here, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers's glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her Taos finale. A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inventing Elsa Maxwell, the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud.
With Inventing Elsa Maxwell, Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself—not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and predictability,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The personal story of the renowned fashion designer discusses the fierce custody battle between her mother and aunt that marked her childhood, her affairs with such men as Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra, and her marriages.
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City. From the vantage point of the American...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxiii, 232 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An American aristocrat--a descendant of founding father John Jay--Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) knew absolutely everyone and brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. Henry Kissinger remarked that more agreements were concluded in her living room than in the White House. In 1945 Susan Mary joined her first husband, a young diplomat, in Paris, where she was at the center of the postwar diplomatic social circuit,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages : 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,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy and would break with her family for love."--Provided by publisher.
Encouraged to be "winners" from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy's children were an ebullient group of overachievers, but the fourth Kennedy child, the irrepressible Kathleen,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the riveting story of a wealthy heiress who joined the OSS and was the only American woman in uniform to be captured by the Germans; her imprisonment among the Nazi elite and daring escape in 1945 comprise one of the more remarkable untold episodes of WWII. Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre was a society heiress from South Carolina who lived a charmed...
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