Dispatches from the Gilded Age: A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far-Flung Places, and the Joys of Southern Comforts

Reed, Julia

ISBN 10: 1250279437 / ISBN 13: 9781250279439

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2022

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Synopsis:

In the middle of the night on March 11, 1980, the phone rang in Julia Reed’s Georgetown dorm. It was her boss at Newsweek where she was an intern. He told her to get in her car and drive to the Madeira School where she had been a student. Her former headmistress, Jean Harris, had just shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, The Scarsdale Diet Doctor. Julia didn’t flinch. She dressed, drove to Madeira, got the story and her first byline and the new American Gilded Age was off and running. The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first was a time in which the high and the low bubbled furiously together and Julia was there with her sharp eye, keen wit, and uproariously clear-eyed way of seeing the world to chronicle this truly spectacular era. Dispatches from the Gilded Age is Julia at her best as she profiles Andre Leon Talley, Sister Helen Prejean, President George and Laura Bush, Madeline Albright, and others. Readers will travel to Africa and Cuba with Julia, dine at Le Bernardin, drink at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, savor steaks at Doe’s Eat Place, consider the fashions of the day, get the recipes for her hot cheese olives and end up with the ride of their lives through Julia’s beloved South. With a foreword by Roy Blount, Jr. and edited by her longtime assistant, Everett Bexley, Dispatches from the Gilded Age establishes Julia Reed as one of America’s greatest chroniclers.

About the Author: JULIA REED (1960-2020) was a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, where she wrote the magazine's "The High & the Low" column. Her books include But Mama Always Puts Vodka in Her Sangria; Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties; and Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena. Reed divided her time between New Orleans and Greenville, Mississippi.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dispatches from the Gilded Age: A Few More ...
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket