A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York By Greg King

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Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age"Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beautified their surroundings; works of art uplifted and were shared with the public; clothing exhibited evidence of breeding; jewelry testified to cultured taste and wealth; dinners demonstrated sophisticated palates; and balls rivaled those of European courts in their refinement. The message was unmistakable: the United States had arrived culturally, and Caroline Astor and her circle were intent on leading the nation to unimagined heights of glory."—From A Season of SplendorTake a dazzling journey through the Gilded Age, the period from roughly the 1870s to 1914, when bluebloods from older, established families met the nouveau riche headlong—railway barons, steel magnates, and Wall Street speculators—and forged an uneasy and glittering new society in New York City. The best of the best were Caroline Astor's 400 families, and she shaped and ruled this high society with steel.A Season of Splendor is a panoramic sweep across this sumptuous landscape, presenting the families, the wealth, the balls, the clothing, and the mansions in vivid detail—as well as the shocking end of the era with the sinking of the Titanic.

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Living the life of the super rich in the Gilded Age of the 1800s evolved to have many social rules.The fortunes made in this era dwarf the biggest fortunes today. Adjusting for inflation, some people accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars.There's no way to compare some expenses. The costs of land and construction, jewelry and servants is much higher today than it was then apart from inflation.There were expectations about clothing, housing, food, staff, flowers, travel...and the yearly expenses were enormous. A super extravagant lifestyle.This lifestyle was new. Older wealthy families lived much more modestly. Showing off wealth was considered in bad taste.The showing of wealth started off more modestly and progressed to the point of ridicule by the end of the period.

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