Palm Beach, Mar-A-Lago, and the rise of America's Xanadu
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
975.932/STANDIFORD,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 975.932/STANDIFORD,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019
EDITION
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

319 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780802128492, 0802128491 :, 0802128491, 9780802128492
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Map on liner paper

Flagrante -- Nouveau riche -- Finding Xanadu -- Madness -- Buying a legislature -- End of the line -- No second acts -- The baton passes -- Gloria in excelsis -- The queen is dead-- long live the queen -- Little cottage by the sea -- Hard times -- Sea change -- A place in readiness -- House without a home -- Angel from America -- Never say ever -- What remains

When Henry Flagler arrived at the island of Palm Beach in April 1893 it was a dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves. Within a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakers. Now Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivity, a fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous protagonists. Standiford brings alive a fabled place and the characters-- the rich, famous and infamous alike-- who have been drawn to it. -- adapted from jacket