America's Secret Aristocracy by Stephen Birmingham (Hardcover)
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Title: America's Secret Aristocracy
Author: Stephen Birmingham
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Non-fiction, American History, Society
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Description:
America’s Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members: the William Randolphs, the first of the first families of Virginia; the Carillos and Ortegas, the premier ranchero families of California; Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt; the Boston Brahmins, including the Lowells, “who speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots, who speak only to God”. With countless anecdotes about our nation’s elite, including interviews with their modern-day descendants, this is a social history both insightful and entertaining.
Note: This hardcover edition is in used but acceptable condition, showing visible wear that does not impact readability.
Author: Stephen Birmingham
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Non-fiction, American History, Society
Condition: Used - Acceptable
Description:
America’s Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members: the William Randolphs, the first of the first families of Virginia; the Carillos and Ortegas, the premier ranchero families of California; Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt; the Boston Brahmins, including the Lowells, “who speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots, who speak only to God”. With countless anecdotes about our nation’s elite, including interviews with their modern-day descendants, this is a social history both insightful and entertaining.
Note: This hardcover edition is in used but acceptable condition, showing visible wear that does not impact readability.
