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The big spenders : the epic story of the rich rich, the grandes of America and the magnificoes, and how they spent their fortunes / Lucius Beebe.

Title
The big spenders : the epic story of the rich rich, the grandes of America and the magnificoes, and how they spent their fortunes / Lucius Beebe.
Author
Beebe, Lucius
Publication
Mount Jackson, Va. : Axios Press, 2009.

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Description
xxxii, 510 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"THE BIG SPENDERS was Lucius Beebe's last, and many think his best, book. In it he describes the lavish spending of the Gilded Age, not from a puritanical perspective, but rather as a theater critic might. One spending spree might be called excessive and tasteless; another might have been excessive, but it was amusing, or a grand spectacle, and tastefully done. Beebe enjoys it all all immensely, and so do his readers. Whether it is James Gordon Bennett buying a Monte Carlo restaurant because he was refused a seat by the window, Boni de Castellane spending million of robber baron Jay Gould's moey in record time, Spencer Penrose leaving a bedside memo reminding himself not to spend more than million the next day, or a legion of high-fliers brushing their teeth in vintage champagne after dining on a gold table service on board an immense yacht, the stories are both humorous and enlightening."--BOOK COVER.
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Note
  • Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1966.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.493-495) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Patroons and Parvenus -- Golden times, Golden Gate -- Pets of the lobster palaces -- The benevolent blackmailer -- Three parties that made headlines -- Magnifico of Maxim's -- How you traveled was who you were -- How to move stylishly -- Good times in the money mountains -- The men -- The plutocrats of Pittsburgh -- Bonanza bazaar -- Misfortune's darling -- Game preserve for the rich -- Fun with real estate.
ISBN
9781604190069 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008034480
OCLC
  • 232982803
  • SCSB-10687721
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library