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Title: A King's Story: The Memoirs of The Duke of Windsor.
Description: 435 pages with appendices. This book is in VERY GOOD condition. Dust jacket covered in archival jacket and in GOOD condition with tearing, breaking and chipping on the edges and corners of the jacket with the spine ends showing few small open tears with breaking. NOT priced clipped.
Title: The King Over the Water.
Author: Amory, Cleveland.
Title: Who Killed Society?
Description: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. "The warfare of Celebrity with Aristocracy in America--from the 'First Families' to the Four Hundred' to 'Publicty.' 599 pages with index plus 48 pages of black & white photos. Includes "The Four Hundred" List and Registered/Proved Coat of Arms. This is the author's third book in the trilogy which included first THE PROPER BOSTONIANS and then THE LAST RESORTS.
"Here, from the authoritative hand of one of America's foremost social historians, is the most informative, comprehensive and entertaining book ever published on the American social scene. Here is the complete history of American 'Society'-all the way from the convening of a 'Grand Jury of Grandes Dames' to the final 'True Bill,' including the specific counts of 'Money, Manners and Morals.' Here, too, is the history of American 'Celebrity'-one which not only includes 'Society' but goes all the way from Virginia's 'FFV's' to California's 'Big Four,' from the Mayflower to the distinguished Jewish 'Grand Dukes,' from Pocahontas to Grace Kelly. And here, best of all, is the generation by-generation saga of the doings and undoings of America's 'Good Families'-'the ones,' as the author says, 'that used to be better.' There are also the inspiring records of achievement-'unmatched' says the author, 'by any titled Aristocracy anywhere in the world'-of the Roc!
kefellers and the DuPonts, the Cabots and the Lowells, the Adamses and the Byrds, the Morgans and the Mellons, the Crockers and the Strauses, and indeed all the country's 'Aristocrats' who have moved through what the author calls 'the age-old process from Celebrity to Society to Aristocracy'
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