King Lehr

Author : Elizabeth Beresford
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781557099631

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King Lehr by Elizabeth Beresford Pdf

Harry Symes Lehr was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret--he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated to his new bride the rules of their strange bedfellowship. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry's death, Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry's most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121254

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“King Lehr” and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

HARRY SYMES LEHR was born in 1869 into a family that was neither wealthy nor socially prominent. His natural gift for entertaining and his penchant for hobnobbing with the very rich earned him entry to the powerful circle of the New York and Newport social elite, where Harry clowned his way to a position of prominence. One of his admirers and patrons, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, introduced him to a young widow, Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. Elizabeth was smitten with young Harry, his elegant dress, and outrageous behavior. They were soon married. But King Lehr had a secret—he was not what he seemed. On their wedding night he cruelly dictated the rules of their strange relationship to his new bride. For twenty-three years, Mrs. Lehr protected his secret and remained in a loveless and abusive marriage. After Harry’s death Elizabeth remarried, to the Baron Decies. Lady Decies wrote down her secret story in 1938, incorporating Harry’s most intimate diaries, and told all in this scandalous tale of power, desire, and deception.

Author : Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010471907

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Turn of the World by Baroness Elizabeth Wharton Drexel Beresford Decies Pdf

Author : Julie Ferry
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Patricia Briggs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133910

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Raven's Shadow by Patricia Briggs Pdf

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs comes a fantastical series set in a world where magic is the only thing that stands between humanity and total destruction... Seraph is a Raven mage, and among the last of the Travelers who ensure that the city of Colossae is safe from evil. Unwelcome by those who fear magic, the wizard clans have been decimated by the very people they’ve sworn to protect. But Seraph is spared a similar fate by the ex-soldier Tier—and together they build a life where she is no longer burdened by her people’s responsibility. But now Tier is missing—or dead—and Seraph’s reprieve from her duty is over. Using her magic to discover her husband’s fate, Seraph realizes the prison that holds the evil entity known as Stalker is weakening—and only Seraph can fulfill her ancestors’ oath...

Author : Elizabeth Drexel
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781429090803

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Turn of the World by Elizabeth Drexel Pdf

As with her prior book King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Lady Decies' Turn of the World (1937) is a fascinating semi-autobiographical history of American high society during the Gay Nineties through the first World War. Upon the book's publication, The Pittsburgh Press wrote, ""The magnificent spectacle that went on behind the scenes in pre-war days of society's Gilded Age at Saratoga, Newport, New York and Paris is detailed by an insider, Elizabeth, Lady Decies, who was Miss Elizabeth Wharton Drexel interesting, amusing and sometimes revolting, as with evident nostalgia she tells of extravagant parties and fortunes spent for clothes and jewels.""

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149410220X

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

Author : Elizabeth D. Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 078128242X

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth D. Lehr Pdf

Bonded Leather binding

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Unfair labor practices
ISBN : IND:30000088151547

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Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor Or Management Field by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013148880

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436692407

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King Lehr and the Gilded Age: With Extracts from the Locked Diary of Harry Lehr by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104268455

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate Pdf

Author : Dick Lehr,Gerard O'Neill
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781610391689

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Black Mass by Dick Lehr,Gerard O'Neill Pdf

When the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major motion picture. James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston's Italian mafia. But no one offered Boston protection from Whitey Bulger, who, in a blizzard of gangland killings, took over the city's drug trade. Whitey's deal with Connolly's FBI spiraled out of control to become the biggest informant scandal in FBI history. Black Mass is a New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller, written by two former reporters who were on the case from the beginning. It is an epic story of violence, double-cross, and corruption at the center of which are the black hearts of two old friends whose lives unfolded in the darkness of permanent midnight.

Author : Elisabeth Drexel Lehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:263423086

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"King Lehr" and the Gilded Age by Elisabeth Drexel Lehr Pdf

Author : Jon Sterngass
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801876967

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First Resorts by Jon Sterngass Pdf

“[A] scrupulously researched and beautifully crafted account of how nineteenth-century Americans went in search of health, rest, and diversion.” —Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, coauthors of The Beach. The History of Paradise on Earth In First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island, Jon Sterngass follows three of the best-known northeastern American resorts across a century of change. Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island began, he finds, as similar pleasure destinations, each of them featuring “grand” hotels where visitors swarmed public spaces such as verandas, dining rooms, and parlors. As the century progressed, however, Saratoga remained much the same, while Newport turned to private (and lavish) “cottages” and Coney Island shifted its focus to amusements for the masses. Fifty-nine illustrations enliven Sterngass’s unique study of the commodification of pleasure that occurred as capitalist values flourished, travel grew more accessible, and leisure time became democratized. These three resorts, he argues, served as forerunners of twentieth-century pleasure cities such as Aspen, Las Vegas, and Orlando. “An engaging, creative book replete with evocative illustrations and witty quotes . . . a pleasant read.” —Thomas A. Chambers, New York Academy of History “Sterngass’s discussions about privacy, community, commercialization, consumption, leisure, and the desire to be conspicuous are important and new. With its well-chosen illustrations, this is a handsome book as well as an important one.” —Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University “Having mined every conceivable source about his three sites, Sterngass has presented a wealth of interesting material not only about the resort experience but also about the residents, politicians, and entrepreneurs who built them.” —Journal of American History