Stephen Birmingham turns his eye to the great Irish-Catholic dynasties of America -- violent, colorful, charming and charmed: the Kennedys, the Cuddihys, Buckleys and Bradys, and the California "Silver Kings": the Floods, Fairs, Mackays and O'Briens. Fleeing from the great Irish potato famine, th...
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Mireille "Mimi" Myerson is the elegant, charming and ambitious president of Miray Corporation. As Mimi attempts to achieve her dreams for the company, family jealousies, dangerous deceptions and marital pitfalls threaten to compromise her goals.Battling forces from within and without, Mimi strugg...
In The Auerbach Will, the novel by America's most renowned chronicler of the rich, ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth and success.But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their...
"an intimate portrait of the Super Rich"
The Wrong Kind of Money brings to vivid life Jules Liebling, the patriarch - shrewd, cynical, coming from the shtetls of Russia to scale the ladder of success in the New World. His wife, Hannah Sachs - daughter of a proud German-Jewish clan, who proves to be even more iron-willed than he in seizi...
The author of ten New York Times bestsellers, inlcuding The Auerbach Will, returns to the exclusive upper circles of the American rich in a tempestuous saga of a man's struggle to climb the ladder into a rarefied world where poverty and ugliness don't exist.
Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history that describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota - a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. This story has the fabulous characters, sharp insights, a...
The author of The Auerbach Will weaves a passionate saga of the powerful LeBaron family--rulers of a billion-dollar empire--and of the two women who will stop at nothing to gain its control.
Of course those weren’t Horace Greeley’s exact words. What he actually said to Aspiring Young Men was, “Turn your face to the great west, and there build up a home and fortune.” But young Ho Rothman had heard of Greeley’s advice, and it was westward that he headed that night—west across the Hudso...
I suppose that’s what you think about me wanting to marry Peggy. I’m sure it’s what your mother thinks. Perhaps even Peggy thinks this, too. But my case is a little different. I wasn’t born in Boston. I was born in Hancock, Massachusetts, which is a good distance away. If you don’t know where Han...