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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 The Season-1913 7
2 The Isle of Peace 11
3 Reversal of Fortune 18
4 The New Newport 26
"The" Mrs. Astor 33
5 Calculated Moves 36
Alva 40
6 The Cottage Wars 44
Mamie 52
7 Upstairs and Downstairs 55
Tessie 65
8 Members Only 68
9 Ladies First 76
Edith 85
10 Fast Times 88
11 A Very Good Year 104
Beatrice 115
12 That Sinking Feeling 117
13 The Binds That Tie 130
Eileen 238
14 There Goes the Neighborhood 145
15 Enemies and Eyesores 152
16 Fire Sale 152
17 Self-Preservation 170
18 All That Jazz 179
Jackie 186
19 What a Swell Party This Is 189
20 The Changing of the Guard 204
Minnie 217
21 Anything Goes 220
Doris 229
22 Tourist Attractions 233
23 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 247
24 Everything Old Is New Again 256
25 The Season-2008 269
Afterword 280
Bibliography 283
Photo Credits 293
Index 295
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Abrar Khan
reviewed Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort on May 06, 2010
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This is the society that Edith Wharton so exquisitely portrayed in The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth.
This is a well researched accounting of the beginning of Newport, from a checkered past of rum running and slave trading through today and the famous New Port Jazz festival.
Deborah Davis takes us behind the scenes of the snobby Vanderbilt, Astor and Belmont newly rich, back stabbing, social climbing Americans who made Newport Rhode Island their vulgar playground with ostentatious multi-million dollar mansions.
This is a fascinating book that teaches without preaching and that avoids gossip while shunning boredom.
Recommended for those who are interested in American history.
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