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Index
Cover Page
Praise for the Writing of Stephen Birmingham
Title Page
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Part One: The Social Establishment: Growing Up “Upper”
1. Who Are Who?
2. Was It Ever What It Used to Be?
3. “How Shall We Tell the Children?”
4. The New “St. Grottlesex Set”
5. “We’re Coming Out Tonight”
6. Playing the Game
7. The Dirty Part
8. Lovely, Lovely Ladies
9. The Club Convention
Part Two: How Money Lives: A Nosegay of the Best Addresses
10. The Riches of Westchester
11. By the Shores of Lake St. Clair
12. The Main Line Eternal
13. The Company Town: West Hartford, Conn. 06107
14. The Power Elite: Society in the Capital
Part Three: How Money Plays: A Selection of Pleasures and Playgrounds
15. “Society’s Most Enduring Invention”
16. “July Was Always for the Shore”
17. “August Was Always for the Mountains”
18. The Palmy Beaches (And the “Other” Miami)
19. The Palmy Springs (All That Money Can Buy)
Part Four: But Is It Really Dead?
20. “Obedience to the Unenforceable”
Index
About the Author
Copyright Page
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