The Social Graces by Renee RosenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Do you like good gossipy reads that happen to be fairly historically accurate? Except for some of the conversations, this book gives you a great story on how the Astors and the Vanderbilts (among others of their ilk) acted during the Gilded Age. As far as I'm concerned, this is when true helicopter parenting was invented, and they did it without social media (more's the pity!) Mother's today could take some lessons.
I've done a lot of reading about both families, and I think I can safely say that this book is accurate except for a few things.
I loved the gossipy backbiting, spite, greed, and everything else that this book gave me. A beach read? Most assuredly!
I have also read and reviewed Park Avenue Summer. I highly recommend this book to add to your summer reading list...especially if you grew up with the magazine Cosmopolitan.
* ARC supplied by the publisher, the author, and Edelweiss.
SYNOPSIS: " The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age.
In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence, society is everything. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor—the Mrs. Astor.
But times are changing.
Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything.
Sweeping three decades and based on true events, this is a gripping novel about two fascinating, complicated women going head to head, behaving badly, and discovering what’s truly at stake"
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