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.
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#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...
Dead end gene pool : a memoir
Burden, Wendy.
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In the tradition of Sean Wilsey's Oh The Glory of It All and Augusten Burrough's Running With Scissors, the great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt gives readers a grand tour of the world of wealth and WASPish peculiarity, in her irreverent and darkly humorous memoir...
Debutante : the story of Brenda Frazier
Diliberto, Gioia 1950-
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Mrs. Astor regrets : the hidden betrayals of a family beyond reproach
Gordon, Meryl.
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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 (Clemens David) 1945-2012
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The unfit heiress : the tragic life and scandalous sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
Farley, Audrey Clare
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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
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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...
Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
Thompson, Laura 1964-
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are...
A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
Fowler, Therese
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The New York Times and USA Today bestseller The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of...
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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