A Season Of Splendor

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620458839

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Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age "Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the public; clothing exhibited evidence of breeding; jewelry testified to cultured taste and wealth; dinners demonstrated sophisticated palates; and balls rivaled those of European courts in their refinement. The message was unmistakable: the United States had arrived culturally, and Caroline Astor and her circle were intent on leading the nation to unimagined heights of glory."—From A Season of Splendor Take a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong—railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators—and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City. The best of the best were Caroline Astor's 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel. A Season of Splendor is a panoramic sweep across this sumptuous landscape, presenting the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail—as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic.

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Trade Paper Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106019659215

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"A Season of Splendor takes you on a spectacular journey through this Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when old-money bluebloods and patricians confronted the nouveau riche - railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators - and forged an uneasy and dazzling new social order in New York City. Together, their extreme wealth, elaborate parties, marble mansions, shocking excesses, and delicious scandals transformed the social, architectural, and sartorial landscape."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Julie Ferry
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781318201

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The Million Dollar Duchesses by Julie Ferry Pdf

On 6 November 1895 Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. Though the preceding months had included spurned loves, unexpected deaths, scandal and illicit affairs, the wedding was the crowning moment for the unofficial marriage brokers, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, the original buccaneers who had instructed, cajoled and manipulated wealthy young heiresses into making the perfect match. Fame, money, power, prestige, perhaps even love – these were some of the reasons for the marriages that took place between wealthy American heiresses and the English aristocracy in 1895. For a few, the marriages were happy but for many others, the matches brought loneliness, infidelity, bankruptcy and divorce. Focusing on a single year, The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau tells the story of a group of wealthy American heiresses seeking to marry into the English aristocracy. From the beautiful and eligible debutante Consuelo Vanderbilt, in love with a dashing older man but thwarted by her controlling mother, Washington society heiress Mary Leiter who married the pompous Lord Curzon and became the Vicereine of India, Maud Burke, vivacious San Francisco belle with a questionable background, this book uncovers their stories. Also revealed is the hidden role played Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, two unofficial marriage brokers who taught the heiresses how to use every social trick in the book to land their dream husband. The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau dashes through the year to uncover the seasons, the parties, the money, the glamour, the gossip, the scandal and the titles, always with one eye on the two women who made it all possible.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004521124

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Duke House and the Making of Modern New York by Anonim Pdf

An important contribution to understanding the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture—in particular the James B. Duke House—within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture and interiors, and adaptive reuse for new functions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : UOM:39015074624969

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Metaphysical Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Luisa Bienati,Bonaventura Ruperti
Publisher : U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781929280551

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The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition by Luisa Bienati,Bonaventura Ruperti Pdf

In 1995, on the thirtieth anniversary of Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s death, Adriana Boscaro organized an international conference in Venice that had an unusally lasting effect on the study of this major Japanese novelist. Thanks to Boscaro’s energetic commitment, Venice became a center for Tanizaki studies that produced two volumes of conference proceedings now considered foundational for all scholarly works on Tanizaki. In the years before and after the Venice Conference, Boscaro and her students published an abundance of works on Tanizaki and translations of his writings, contributing to his literary success in Italy and internationally. The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition honors Boscaro’s work by collecting nine essays on Tanizaki’s position in relation to the “great tradition” of Japanese classical literature. To open the collection, Edward Seidensticker contributes a provocative essay on literary styles and the task of translating Genji into a modern language. Gaye Rowley and Ibuki Kazuko also consider Tanizaki’s Genji translations, from a completely different point of view, documenting the author’s three separate translation efforts. Aileen Gatten turns to the influence of Heian narrative methods on Tanizaki’s fiction, arguing that his classicism, far from being superficial, “reflects a deep sensitivity to Heian narrative.” Tzevetana Kristeva holds a different perspective on Tanizaki’s classicism, singling out specific aspects of Tanizaki’s eroticism as the basis of comparison. The next two essays emphasize Tanizaki’s experimental engagement with the classical literary genres—Amy V. Heinrich treats the understudied poetry, and Bonaventura Ruperti considers a 1933 essay on performance arts. Taking up cinema, Roberta Novelli focuses on the novel Manji, exploring how it was recast for the screen by Masumura Yasuzo. The volume concludes with two contributions interpreting Tanizaki’s works in the light of Western and Meiji literary traditions: Paul McCarthy considers Nabokovas a point of comparison, and Jacqueline Pigeot conducts a groundbreaking comparison with a novel by Natsume Soseki.

Author : Heinrich Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Jews
ISBN : IOWA:31858012062000

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Rise & splendor of the Hebrew monarchy; ed. by J. E. Carpenter. (2nd Ed.) by Heinrich Ewald Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Matilla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758200943

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Season of Splendor by Elizabeth Matilla Pdf

Author : William Secker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Christian life
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2DD9

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The Nonsuch Professor in His Meridian Splendor by William Secker Pdf

Author : Lloyd Zimpel
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936071126

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A Season of Fire and Ice by Lloyd Zimpel Pdf

From the heartlands of the 1880s Upper Midwest comes a morality tale of survival and destiny told in the convincing language of a patriarch’s journal, evoking a real sense of the time and place. Gerhardt Praeger, a farmer of some education and plenty experience, understands the mixture of hard work, ingenuity, ethic, grace and steadiness of spirit needed to hold his settler family and neighboring community together while homesteading the hard territory of the Dakotas. He, along with his wife and seven sons, must constantly contend with natural disasters and manmade challenges to carve out their holdings in an unforgiving environment that has defeated so many of their neighbors, sending them home to their families back east. Praeger believes that God will provide sufficiently if not in abundance to those who can resist over-reaching. But a new neighbor, the bold Beidermann, who seems at times almost larger than life, stirs both his curiosity and envy, and tests Praeger’s moral beliefs. Between his remarkable journal entries that observe the increasingly tense events between them, is also a narrative that moves the everyone toward calamity. What results is an almost biblical story of moral imperatives and self-revelation, of man striving to civilize his own impulses along with the wild land.

Author : Loch K. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700621477

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A Season of Inquiry Revisited by Loch K. Johnson Pdf

The original edition of A Season of Inquiry, first published in 1986, offered the public an insider's account of the workings of the Church investigation and of the nation's espionage agencies, including the CIA's covert action against the democratically elected regime of Salvador Allende in Chile. In this new edition the author, then a special assistant to Senator Church, revisits the circumstances surrounding the investigation and subsequent, shocking report and reminds us its continuing relevance—in instances such as the Iran-Contra investigation, the 9/11 and Iraqi WMD intelligence failures, the Edward Snowden affair, and, most recently, the US Senate Torture Report. A Season of Inquiry Revisited details a moment that was at once a high-water mark for intelligence accountability in the United States and a low point in the American people's trust of the agencies sworn to protect them. Coming on the heels of the Watergate scandal, the wrenching experience of the Vietnam War, and the release of the Pentagon Papers, revelations of domestic spying sent a shock wave through the nation and spurred the political establishment to action. While a White House panel focused narrowly on CIA spying at home, the Church Committee enlarged its investigation to include the FBI, the National Security Agency, and a host of other primarily military espionage services, as well as CIA assassination plots around the world. Johnson describes the political players and their pursuit of information, the abuses they discovered, and the remarkable reports they compiled, chronicling a litany of disquieting operations carried out against American citizens and foreign leaders in Latin America and Africa. With a new preface and postscript along with an updated chronology and appendix, this new edition revisits a moment of reckoning in the halls of power. The nation has now arrived at a time when the lessons of the Church Committee warrant special remembering.

Author : Bertha Connally Abraham
Publisher : Creative House Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781450714136

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If Only for a Season by Bertha Connally Abraham Pdf

Author : Ray White
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615251882

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If Only for a Season by Ray White Pdf

When Jeremiah Clark enters the Cripple Creek gold camp with a grubstake of $128, he finds there are already three railroads and 20,000 eager miners competing for the riches. It s the Colorado gold rush! But he also finds a local miner s union importing dangerous men, willing to do almost anything. They are drifters, malefactors, and miscreants - the ilk of a territorial prison. Only a thousand state militiamen can control the rough element, bent on bringing down wealthy mine owners. This thrilling novel brings Cripple Creek s labor wars to life in the events of one ordinary man who rises from two-dollar-a-week plow hand to Gold Coin Club millionaire practically overnight. But can his fledgling operation survive the conflict? If Only For a Season crackles with western action and drama. Characters like Sam Whitman - the aging Wild West prospector, Charles Moyer - the driven union boss, and Sherman Bell - the militia general, promise to delight all readers.

Author : Fendel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 087306934X

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Seasons of Splendor by Fendel Pdf

Author : Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 0140346996

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Seasons of Splendour by Madhur Jaffrey Pdf

Superb retelling of traditional tales from Hindu epics. Lavishly illustrated by Michael Foreman. Age 9+ 192 pages