A look into the world of the American aristocracy and privilege of early twentieth century. Flora Miller Biddle grew up in the lap of luxury. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. But money itself is not the source of happiness. Recollections of the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her...