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America's Secret Aristocracy

- The Families that Built the United States
Af: Stephen Birmingham Engelsk Paperback

America's Secret Aristocracy

- The Families that Built the United States
Af: Stephen Birmingham Engelsk Paperback
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America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy  emerged anyway—a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy and identifies which families in which cities have always mattered and how they’ve defined America.America’s  Secret Aristocracy  offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members: the William Randolphs, the first  of the first families of Virginia; the Carillos and Ortegas, the premier ranchero families of California; Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt; the Boston Brahmins, including the Lowells, “who speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots, who speak only to God”. With countless anecdotes about our nation’s elite, including interviews with their modern-day descendants, this is a social history both insightful and entertaining.Scores of social chroniclers have tried to define America’s aristocracy with various Social Registers and Who’s Whos. Stephen Birmingham outdoes these lists as his colorful portraits go far beyond simply naming names; they capture the true definition, essence and customs of America’s aristocratic families.
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America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy  emerged anyway—a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the inner workings of this aristocracy and identifies which families in which cities have always mattered and how they’ve defined America.America’s  Secret Aristocracy  offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members: the William Randolphs, the first  of the first families of Virginia; the Carillos and Ortegas, the premier ranchero families of California; Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt; the Boston Brahmins, including the Lowells, “who speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots, who speak only to God”. With countless anecdotes about our nation’s elite, including interviews with their modern-day descendants, this is a social history both insightful and entertaining.Scores of social chroniclers have tried to define America’s aristocracy with various Social Registers and Who’s Whos. Stephen Birmingham outdoes these lists as his colorful portraits go far beyond simply naming names; they capture the true definition, essence and customs of America’s aristocratic families.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 344
ISBN-13: 9781493024766
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1493024760
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 15 aug 2016
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 233mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 15 aug 2016
Forfatter(e): Stephen Birmingham
Forfatter(e) Stephen Birmingham

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9781493024766

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 344

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 233mm

Højde 154mm

Udg. Dato 15 aug 2016

Oplagsdato 15 aug 2016

Forlag Rowman & Littlefield

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