The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
by Birmingham, Stephen
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. Cloth, 360 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine rolled, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, tanned at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. "An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of 'Our Crowd.' It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter. Real Society is not about the money--or rather, it's not only about the money--it is about history, breeding, tradition, and most of all, the name. The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New York's Westchester County. It is a marvelously anecdotal, intimately detailed overview of the lives of the American aristocracy: where they gather and dine; their games and sports, clubs and parties, friendships and feuds; their mating, marriage, and divorce rituals--a potpourri of priceless true stories featuring the Astors, Goulds, Vanderbilts, Vanderlips, Dukes, Biddles, and other lofty names from the pages of the Social Register." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113003
- Title
- The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
- Author
- Birmingham, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Toronto
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Patronage / Individual Collectors; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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