Bücher von Bibi Gaston

Her name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as "The Loveliest Woman in America," she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer, JFK's lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. At nineteen she was discovered aboard a cruise ship, at twenty-three she married the playboy scion of a political Boston family, but by thirty-three she was dead by her own hand. Seventy years later, her granddaughter, a noted landscape architect, received Rosamond's diaries and embarked on a search to discover the real Rosamond Pinchot.Unearthing what appeared to be a glamorous fairy-tale existence, Bibi Gaston discovers the roots of the ties that bind and break a family, and uncovers the legacy of two great American dynasties torn apart by her grandmother's untimely death. This is a tale of three lives and five generations, mothers and grandmothers, longing, holding on and letting go, men, beauty, diets, and letting beauty slip. This is the story of how we make the most of our brief, beautiful lives.

In 2005, six tattered blue boxes were unearthed in the Library of Congress's Pinchot Collectionin Washington D.C. Inside were 5,000 pages of letters describing the work of early resourceconservation professionals. The boxes were labeled simply "The Old Timers." Penned betweenthe years 1937-1941 by the first class of American Forest Rangers to serve under PresidentTheodore Roosevelt and First Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot, the letters offer amirror to the America we once were, and a guidebook for the road ahead.These narratives tell of extreme hardship, fearless struggle, confrontations with cattlemen,miners, loggers, and the challenge of turning confrontations into cooperation and gratitude.It wasn't an easy life by any means, but to these men and women, their life of service was thebest life they could imagine. To a one, they were grateful for the chance to live a meaningful lifein a time of struggle.