Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.) Reviews

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.)

When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York societyâ€"forcing a heartbroken Consuelo into a marriage she did not want with the underfunded Duke of Marlborough. But the story of Consuelo and Alva is more than a tale of enterprising social ambition, Gilded Age glamour, and the emptiness of wealth. It is a fascinating account of two extraordinary women who struggled to break free from the world into which they were bornâ€"a world of materialistic concerns and shallow elitism in which females were voiceless and powerlessâ€"and of their lifelong dedication to noble and dangerous causes and the battle for women's rights.

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Mother of the Wire Fence





Plank explores the boundaries that lie between those outside and inside the experience of the Holocaust, attempting to bridge the gap with the power of poetry, artifact, memory, and religious symbol. "Plank's work is authentic. Its truth painful. He has taken us close to the inside."--Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.









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