Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort

by Deborah Davis

Book Overview

A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century

Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the country's most famous blueblood families?the closest thing we have to royalty?have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, JFK and Jacqueline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047012413X
• ISBN13: 9780470124130
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Wiley (TP)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"