Title: A season of splendor
Subtitle: the court of Mrs. Astor in gilded age New York
First published: 2008
Description: "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. Together, their extreme wealth, elaborate parties, marble mansions, shocking excesses, and delicious scandals transformed the social, architectural, and sartorial landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Rich people, Social life and customs, Friends and associates, Description and travel, Elite (Social sciences), Socialites, Biography, History, Travel, Manners and customs, Friendship, Rich people, biography, New york (n.y.), social life and customs, New york (n.y.), biography, New york (n.y.), description and travel
Places: New York (N.Y.), New York (State), New York
People: Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830-1908)
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: F124 .K56 2008