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Length12h 15m
About this audiobook
An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of
"Our Crowd"
It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the
very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter. Real Society is not about the money—or rather, it's not
only about the money—it is about history, breeding, tradition, and most of all, the name.
The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New York's Westchester County. It is a marvelously anecdotal, intimately detailed overview of the lives of the American aristocracy: where they gather and dine; their games and sports, clubs and parties, friendships and feuds; their mating, marriage, and divorce rituals—a potpourri of priceless true stories featuring the Astors, Goulds, Vanderbilts, Vanderlips, Dukes, Biddles, and other lofty names from the pages of the Social Register.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Biography and Memoir
Length12 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byJason Leikam
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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