The Right Places: (For The Right People)
Where are the Right Places, those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play? You may be in for a surprise. For as Stephen Birmingham shows, in the same witty, penetrating style that characterized his other studies of the elite, the Right Places could be just about anywhere, from exclusive chalets in Sun Valley, Idaho to the traditionally swank estates of Fairfield County, Connecticut, to the nascent avant-garde art scene in Kansas City, Missouri.

Birmingham goes to great lengths to unveil the secret enclaves of the rich for his readers, from the secret hideaway of Maria Callas after Aristotle Onassis deserted for the lovely widowed Jacqueline Kennedy, to Elizabeth Taylor’s habits at home, including her favorite recipe for chili. The late Stephen Birmingham renders the walls between the reader and the rich transparent, giving us a glimpse into their lives and abodes beyond what is seen in paparazzi photos.
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The Right Places: (For The Right People)
Where are the Right Places, those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play? You may be in for a surprise. For as Stephen Birmingham shows, in the same witty, penetrating style that characterized his other studies of the elite, the Right Places could be just about anywhere, from exclusive chalets in Sun Valley, Idaho to the traditionally swank estates of Fairfield County, Connecticut, to the nascent avant-garde art scene in Kansas City, Missouri.

Birmingham goes to great lengths to unveil the secret enclaves of the rich for his readers, from the secret hideaway of Maria Callas after Aristotle Onassis deserted for the lovely widowed Jacqueline Kennedy, to Elizabeth Taylor’s habits at home, including her favorite recipe for chili. The late Stephen Birmingham renders the walls between the reader and the rich transparent, giving us a glimpse into their lives and abodes beyond what is seen in paparazzi photos.
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The Right Places: (For The Right People)

The Right Places: (For The Right People)

by Stephen Birmingham
The Right Places: (For The Right People)

The Right Places: (For The Right People)

by Stephen Birmingham

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Where are the Right Places, those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play? You may be in for a surprise. For as Stephen Birmingham shows, in the same witty, penetrating style that characterized his other studies of the elite, the Right Places could be just about anywhere, from exclusive chalets in Sun Valley, Idaho to the traditionally swank estates of Fairfield County, Connecticut, to the nascent avant-garde art scene in Kansas City, Missouri.

Birmingham goes to great lengths to unveil the secret enclaves of the rich for his readers, from the secret hideaway of Maria Callas after Aristotle Onassis deserted for the lovely widowed Jacqueline Kennedy, to Elizabeth Taylor’s habits at home, including her favorite recipe for chili. The late Stephen Birmingham renders the walls between the reader and the rich transparent, giving us a glimpse into their lives and abodes beyond what is seen in paparazzi photos.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493024698
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Publication date: 08/15/2016
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Stephen Birmingham is a preeminent social historian, known for his books The Right People, Real Lace, and The Grandees. He allows his reader unparalleled access to the most exclusive society sets, and tells their stories with great warmth and wit.

Table of Contents

Part 1 "Who Needs Paris?"

1 The Money Nobody Knows 3

2 Kansas City: Seville on the Missouri 9

3 California's Central Valley: "Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health" 25

4 Fort Lauderdale: "How Big Is Your Boat?" 43

5 West Virginia: "In These Hills and Hollows" 55

Part 2 Where the Money Is Quiet

6 The North Carolina Pines: "Sand in Our Shoes" 73

7 The Alpine Set: "You Can Live Forever Here" 85

8 Fairfield County: Perilous Preserve 95

Part 3 The Simple Playgrounds

9 Sun Valley: "Mr. Harriman's Private Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More" 113

10 Mexico: In Search of What Acapulco Used to Be 131

11 New York, N.Y. 10022: Indestructible P.J.'s 145

12 New York, N.Y. 10019: What Are They Doing to Bergdorf Goodman? 159

13 The Circuit: Tell Us All 175

Part 4 How Not to Do It

14 U.S.A.: The Dwindling Pleasures of the Rich 187

15 London; His Excellency, the Ambassador 197

Part 5 So the Rich Are Like You and Me

16 Yachting: Everybody's Doing It 215

17 "Come and Join Our Exclusive Club… Please?" 227

18 Where to Get Young and Beautiful 239

19 The Dying Art of Social Climbing 253

Index 263

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