Author: STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
Title: Our Crowd. The Great Jewish Families of New York
Description: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 2005. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 496. A novelist who has specialized in creating tales of the rich and well placed offers an insider's view of one of the wealthiest segments of an affluent city: Jewish upper-class life in New York.Working with diaries, letters, and personal reminiscences supplied by members of interwoven families-Loeb, Lehman, straus, seligman, and Guggenheism, among others-Stephen Birmingham has assembled a remarkable composite portrait. some of his tales are wildly funny. others are poignant. All are set within a world of numbing opulence-Fifth Avenue mansions, chateaux on Long Island, castles in Westchester, vast art collections-millions given away so quietly and steadily that they have never properly been counted. This economic power and unique culture was played out alongside-but never a part of-the gentile establishment.Remarkable individuals, resplendent dynasties-out of the elegant fabric of their lives, Birmingham has fashioned superb social history. ISBN: 9781579124359. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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