The big spenders
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Author
Publication
2009 - Axios Press, Mount Jackson, VA, Virginia
Language
English
Word Count
127,500 words, Guess
Page Count
510 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebigspendersepics0000beeb
- ISBN-10160419006X
- ISBN-139781604190069
- Goodreads6216162
- LibraryThing1127797
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008034480
- OCLC Control Number232982803
- Better World Books9781604190069
- Open LibraryOL23160429M
Classifications
- DDC973.8
- LCCE168 .B43 2009
- LCCE168.B43 2009
Description
"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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