American lady
Subtitle: the life of Susan Mary Alsop
By: Caroline de Margerie ; translated by Christopher Murray
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780670025749
Subjects: Social life and customs; Political culture; Friends and associates; Americans; Upper class women; Socialites; Upper class; Biography; History
Work titles: American lady
Description: An American aristocrat--a descendant of founding father John Jay--Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) knew absolutely everyone and brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. Henry Kissinger remarked that more agreements were concluded in her living room than in the White House. In 1945 Susan Mary joined her first husband, a young diplomat, in Paris, where she was at the center of the postwar diplomatic social circuit, dining with Churchill, FDR, Garbo, and many others. Widowed in 1960, she married journalist and power broker Joe Alsop. Dubbed "the Second Lady of Camelot," Susan Mary hosted dinner parties that were the epitome of political power and social arrival. She reigned over Georgetown society for four decades; her house was the gathering place for everyone of importance, from John F. Kennedy to Katharine Graham. After divorcing Alsop, she embarked on a literary career, publishing four books before her death at 86.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jays; title: On the Verge of Life; title: Paris; title: Affairs of the Heart; title: The Age of Serenity; title: When Shadows Fall; title: At the Court of King Jack; title: Anatomy of Marriage; title: The Pleasure of Writing; title: And Night Came.