But when I first moved to New York, I became fascinated by reading people like Liz Smith, who still does a column, and Cindy Adams. My mother was a social worker and my father was an accountant. I’m from an upper middle class Jewish family in Rochester, New York.
Is this an area in which you’ve always been interested? The Phantom of Fifth Avenue is your second book about New York high society. Phantom is out in hardback from Grand Central publishing. Gordon in the Upper West Side apartment she shares with her husband, the journalist Walter Shapiro, where she discussed the riddle of Huguette Clark and the thrill of writing about a city full of fabulously wealthy ghosts. The result, The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, offers an alluring, enigmatic portrait of a woman who shunned virtually all face-to-to face interaction during her last decades, the final two of which she elected to spend-despite good health-in a hospital bed, as her palatial residences on Fifth Avenue, and in Connecticut and California sat dormant. Gordon was asked by her publisher to train her Social Register expertise on Ms.
And when Huguette Clark-heiress to the copper mining fortune of her father, the robber baron Senator William Andrews Clark-died at 104 in 2011, leaving behind a fiercely-contested will, Ms. Astor Regrets, NYU professor and New York and Vanity Fair contributor Meryl Gordon chronicled the sad and tawdry unraveling of one of the city’s most storied families. (Photo courtesy of the Estate of Huguette M. Here is an American epic of the bonds of money, morality, and social position.Huguette Clark, seated apparently at home. Even in this territory of privilege, no riches can put things right once they've been torn asunder. This powerful, poignant saga takes the reader inside the gilded gates of an American dynasty to tell of three generations' worth of longing and missed opportunities. The result is the behind-the-headlines story of the Astor empire's unraveling, filled with never-before-reported scenes. New York journalist Meryl Gordon has interviewed not only the elite of Brooke Astor's social circle, but also the large staff who cosseted and cared for Mrs. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world so nearly forgotten: a realm of lavish wealth and secrets of the sort that have engaged Americans from the era of Edith Wharton to the more recent days of Truman Capote and Vanity Fair. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in publicThe fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke.
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