American Heiresses

Nonfiction concerning the most unrelatable of subjects: heiresses.
Updated October 2, 2022
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Empty mansions : the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
Dedman, Bill.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times * St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for...
All the pain that money can buy : the life of Christina Onassis
Wright, William
Paper Book
Debutante : the story of Brenda Frazier
Diliberto, Gioia
Paper Book
Edie, an American biography
Stein, Jean.
Paper Book
When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died from a drug overdose. Alternately thrilling,...
The glitter and the gold
Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Paper Book
Mrs. Astor regrets : the hidden betrayals of a family beyond reproach
Gordon, Meryl.
Paper Book
A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment...
Poor little rich girl : the life and legend of Barbara Hutton
Heymann, C. David
Paper Book
Trust no one : the glamorous life and bizarre death of Doris Duke
Schwarz, Ted
Paper Book
With a fortune estimated at over $3 billion, Doris Duke was one of the richest women in America, if not the world. Heiress to the American Tobacco Company fortune, she took to heart her father's admonition to trust no one. Written with Tom Rybak, a member of Duke's staff, this inside look at her...
The unfit heiress : the tragic life and scandalous sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
Farley, Audrey Clare
Paper Book
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOT NAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADS For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, "a sensational story...
The husband hunters : American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy
De Courcy, Anne
Paper Book
A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the...
A well-behaved woman
Fowler, Therese
Paper Book
New York Times Bestselling AuthorA riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her family in Gilded-Age New York. With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, Fowler paints a world of enormous wealth and desperate poverty, social ambition and social scorn, friendship and betrayal, and a...
The phantom of Fifth Avenue : the mysterious life and scandalous death of heiress Huguette Clark
Gordon, Meryl.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon, the definitive biography of Huguette Clark, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age socialites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospitals. Born in...

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