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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.
- About the Author: GREG KING is the author of the British bestseller The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson as well as The Court of the Last Tsar, The Fate of the Romanovs, and Twilight of Splendor.
- 528 Pages
- History, United States
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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. Author Greg King places you in the heart of this glittering era, where you'll discover all that was beguiling and appalling about this altogether extraordinary epoch.
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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. Author Greg King places you in the heart of this glittering era, where you'll discover all that was beguiling and appalling about this altogether extraordinary epoch.
About the Author
GREG KING is the author of the British bestseller The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson as well as The Court of the Last Tsar, The Fate of the Romanovs, and Twilight of Splendor. He has appeared as an onscreen commentator for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, and A&E.
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