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Summary: An era no longer . . .
Review: ....Granted, not a great book - but a very good one. To me - this is a fasinating look at an era that exists no longer. These women led extremely interesting lives - not only in the people they married - but the way in which they chose to live them. Try and get a copy of this book - you won't regret it. It is one of my favorites.
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Summary: A Fascinating Family
Review: The Cushing Sisters were an intriguing trio, by now largely forgotten except for their nearest and dearest. Groundbreaking neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing of Boston had three beautiful daughters born at the cusp of the 20th Century, but it was his wife who raised their girls with the single goal of making good marriages. Daughter Betsey grew up to wed James Roosevelt, son of then-President Franklin Roosevelt, until she divorced him for the far-richer John (Jock) Hay Whitney. Minnie married fabulously wealthy Vincent Astor, but not for long. Vincent subsequently married Brooke Astor, the sole survivor of this group of siblings and spouses and ex-spouses; Brooke has devoted her life to using Vincent's money for good works. And Minnie's second husband was...gasp!...not rich. The beautiful Barbara, known as "Babe," first married socialite Stanley Mortimer, then divorced him and married the much richer founder of CBS Television, Bill Paley. Along the line, Babe became a fashion icon, the tastemaker of her generation. These three women gave shape to the Jet Set of the 1950's and 1960's. In writing THE SISTERS, author David Grafton sheds light on a fascinating family and, in the process, Grafton also provides a snapshot of a fascinating moment in social history.
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Summary: A great topic - too bad another author didn't tackle it!
Review: The only good thing about this book is that it has no grammatical errors or typos. This is the shallowist of biographies, probably gleaned from newspaper clippings. There are lists of who wore what at each sister's wedding as well as who attended and, later, lists of who was left exactly which items when the sisters died. In between is a vast nothingness, punctuated only with the barest details of the sisters' lives. We never do find out what they themselves are like - surely the whole point of a biography.
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