What Would Mrs. Astor Do? Tichi Cecelia
What Would Mrs. Astor Do? Tichi Cecelia A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class--and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. America was the foremost…
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do? Tichi Cecelia
A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class--and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. America was the foremost nation of the world, and New York City was its beating heart. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion, and an explosion of wealth unlike any the world had ever seen.
Morgan, Edith Wharton, the Vanderbilts, Andrew Carnegie, and more--became icons, whose comings and goings were breathlessly reported in the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. There, the richest and most influential--Thomas Edison, J. P. It was a time of abundance, but also bitter rivalries, in work and play.
The Old Money titans found themselves besieged by a vanguard of New Money interlopers eager to gain entr e into their world of formal balls,