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2 Formats: Retail CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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$36.95
ISBN: 9798200997916
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$31.95
ISBN: 9798200997923
| Runtime: | 5.41 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time.
Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity.
The locations of the social gatherings which McAllister attended during this time aren’t limited to the USA, but encompass much of Europe as well.
Author
Author Bio: Ward McAllister
Samuel Ward McAllister (1827–1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late-nineteenth-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority on which families could be classified as the cream of New York society.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 5.41 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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