Turn Of The World

by Elizabeth, Lady Decies

2021-01-07 18:36:37

As with her prior book King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Lady Decies'' Turn of the World (1937) is a fascinating semi-autobiographical history of American high society during the Gay Nineties through the first World War. Upon the book''s publicati... Read more
As with her prior book King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Lady Decies'' Turn of the World (1937) is a fascinating semi-autobiographical history of American high society during the Gay Nineties through the first World War. Upon the book''s publication, The Pittsburgh Press wrote, "The magnificent spectacle that went on behind the scenes in pre-war days of society''s Gilded Age at Saratoga, Newport, New York and Paris is detailed by an insider, Elizabeth, Lady Decies, who was Miss Elizabeth Wharton Drexel interesting, amusing and sometimes revolting, as with evident nostalgia she tells of extravagant parties and fortunes spent for clothes and jewels." Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.68 in
Print pages356
PublisherApplewood Books
Publication date June 26, 2012
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781429090803

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