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  • von Stephen Birmingham
    30,00 €

    The last addition to Stephen Birmingham's historical trilogy, following "Our Crowd" and The Grandees, "The Rest of Us" recounts the immigration of Eastern European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Birmingham spotlights the successes of several of these famous immigrants, including Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubinstein, and Irving Berlin.

  • - The Great Jewish Families of New York
    von Stephen Birmingham
    30,00 €

    Our Crowd is Stephen Birmingham's New York Times-bestselling history of the rise of the most powerful and privileged Jewish families in America.

  • - (For The Right People)
    von Stephen Birmingham
    22,00 €

    In The Right Places Stephen Birmingham uses his witty, penetrating style to uncover those exclusive locations where the privileged live and play. Birmingham unveils the secret enclaves of the rich for his readers, giving us a glimpse into their lives and abodes beyond what is seen in paparazzi photos.

  • - Suburbia in the 1970s
    von Stephen Birmingham
    23,00 €

    In this chatty, anecdotal, and often ironic inquiry, Stephen Birmingham investigates the nesting habits, enjoyments, and frustrations of American suburban life in the Seventies.

  • - The Families that Built the United States
    von Stephen Birmingham
    23,00 €

    America's Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America's most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members.

  • - The wonderfully uninhibited ladies who used their wealth & position to create American culture in their own images-from the Gilded Age to Modern Times
    von Stephen Birmingham
    22,00 €

    The Grandes Dames of America knew just what they wanted and precisely how to get it, and when faced with criticism, malice or jealousy, they would rise above their detractors and usually persevere. Preeminent social historian Stephen Birmingham takes us into the drawing rooms of these powerful women, providing keen insights into aspects of an American Society that no longer exists.

  • - The lives, the times, the scandals and the fortunes of the men & women who made & kept California's wealth
    von Stephen Birmingham
    23,00 €

    Stephen Birmingham explores here the fascinating social history of California, showing how the ruling class of California was born from rough hewn mining communities, and how it evolved a lifestyle that continues to fascinate the world.

  • - New York's Most Unusual Address
    von Stephen Birmingham
    23,00 €

    Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy, from Roberta Flack to John Lennon, who called The Dakota "home", despite the fact this New York apartment house was erected "too far up" and on the wrong side of town.

  • - America's Irish Rich
    von Stephen Birmingham
    23,00 €

    Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America-frequently in less than a generation's time-out of poverty into positions of both social and business prominence.

  • - America's Sephardic Elite
    von Stephen Birmingham
    24,00 €

    Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of the Sephardic elite--an insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons.

  • - A Portrait of the American Social Establishment
    von Stephen Birmingham
    24,00 €

    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.

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