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Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

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A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed writer of Party of the Century

Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Some of the country’s most famous blueblood families?the closest thing we need to royalty?have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Doris Duke, and Claus and Sunny von Bulow are just a number of the many names who have known as the city home. Gilded takes you along as you explore the fascinating heritage of the Newport elite, from its first colonists to the most recent of its new millennium millionaires, showing the evolution of a town intent on living in its own world. Through a narrative filled with engrossing characters and full of life tales of untold extravagance, Davis brings the resort to life and uncovers the difference between rich and Newport rich along the way.

  • An engrossing multigenerational saga that tells the real story of the rich and famous in Newport
  • Vibrant, praiseworthy writing: “”[Davis] brings splendidly colorful at the back of-the-scenes action and players up front”” (the New York Times on Party of the Century)
  • 34 evocative black-and-white photographs

Written with insight and dramatic flair, Gilded offers you a rare peek into the cloistered coastal playground of The usa’s moneyed elite.

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