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The Right People - A Portrait of the American Social Establishment (Paperback)
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The Right People - A Portrait of the American Social Establishment (Paperback)
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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, Dukes, Biddles, and other lofty names from the
pages of the Social Register.
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