The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal.
Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller.
At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain's first female MP, championing women's rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author's grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe.
Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.

• We started tracking this book on February 2, 2011.
• This book was $13.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 68 times in the past 5,473 days.
• The current price of this book is $14.99 last checked 2 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past six months.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $13.99.
• The lowest price to date was $0.99 last reached on September 3, 2018.
• This book has been $0.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $15.99 last reached on September 13, 2023.
• This book has been $15.99 one time since we started tracking it.

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 496 Pages
• File Size: 963 KB