Long Branch in the Golden Age:: Tales of Fascinating and Famous People

by Sharon Hazard

Book Overview

Elite Americans came to Long Branch to stroll along the shore, dance in the hotel ballrooms, gamble a fortune at the casinos, build magnificent mansions and socialize with the day's most powerful players in entertainment, industry and politics.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, summers at the shore meant Long Branch, New Jersey, for seven presidents and innumerable other American celebrities. From rags-to-riches industrialists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596292164
• ISBN13: 9781596292161
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"