In the early 1970s, Katharine Graham was one of the most powerful women on earth. As publisher of the Washington Post, she published the Pentagon Papers, which shed light on the darkest corners of the war in Vietnam, and she oversaw the investigation into the Watergate scandal, …
A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century. Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich. Many of the countrys most famous blueblood familiesthe clo…
Presents a history of Newport, Rhode Island and its social elite as it survived several ups and downs and provided summer housing for super wealthy Americans like the Vanderbilts, Astors and others.
"Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China draws on a wide variety of recent national surveys and detailed case studies to capture the diversity of postsocialist China and identify the contradictory dynamics forging contemporary social stratification. Focusing on econom…