The Amiable Baltimoreans

by Francis Beirne

Book Overview

The first umbrella in America and a Washington monument that predates the one in the nation's capital were raised in Baltimore. A renowned beauty of the city, Betsy Patterson, married Jerome Bonaparte, but was forbidden by her brother-in-law, Napoleon, from ever setting foot in France. A century later, Wallis Warfield, another Baltimorean, made her own assault on European royalty. Baltimore is the city of Babe Ruth and H.L. Mencken and the final...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080182513X
• ISBN13: 9780801825132
• Release Date: October 1984
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.