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American Castle : One Hundred Years of Mar-a-Lago by Mary C. Shanklin DJ 2023
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- Like New
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- Type
- Historical
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
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Publisher
Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN-10
1635768969
ISBN-13
9781635768961
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4059026942
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Castle : One Hundred Years of Mar-A-Lago
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 21st Century, United States / General
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
Reviews
"An enthralling narrative of extreme American opulence and unforgettable characters set within Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago. American Castle is the brilliantly detailed, must-read prologue to the estate's current chapter of excess and scandal." --Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America "An entirely new perspective of the now world-famous Mar-a-Lago. The public tends to look at Mar-a-Lago as the residence of Donald Trump, without realizing that it once belonged to them as part of the National Park Service--and before that to one of the wealthiest and most compelling socialites in American history, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Bookended by the FBI search and Trump's arrest, American Castle is an opulent, lively history of Post's grand estate." --Tim Franklin, Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern University Medill School, former President of the Poynter Institute, "Reading American Castle is like having a tabloid newspaper in front of you and a history book on the side. Or the other way around. Or both; straddling many important historical events, there's enough inside here to satisfy the two genres equally. If you love the history of privilege, politics, or current events, American Castle is a book you won't stop talking about." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Goshen News "...a fast-paced narrative that takes a detailed look into the 118-room, 17-acre estate's history...What lies ahead for Mar-a-Lago isn't known." --Susan Salisbury, Palm Beach Daily News "An enthralling narrative of extreme American opulence and unforgettable characters set within Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago. American Castle is the brilliantly detailed, must-read prologue to the estate's current chapter of excess and scandal." --Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America "A history of a grand mansion and its numerous occupants . . . A well-told story that's full of surprises, its storied subject generating headlines for a century." -- Kirkus Reviews "An entirely new perspective of the now world-famous Mar-a-Lago. The public tends to look at Mar-a-Lago as the residence of Donald Trump, without realizing that it once belonged to them as part of the National Park Service--and before that to one of the wealthiest and most compelling socialites in American history, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Bookended by the FBI search and Trump's arrest, American Castle is an opulent, lively history of Post's grand estate." --Tim Franklin, Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern University Medill School, former President of the Poynter Institute "Journalist Shanklin debuts with an immersive behind-the-scenes portrait of Mar-a-Lago, the former Palm Beach mansion turned private club. "An ode to Roaring Twenties excess," the 17-acre "winter trophy estate" built by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) cost $3 million and took three years, from 1924 to 1927, to complete. When Post took the reins of the General Foods empire in 1936, becoming one of the first women to "command a global corporation," she shuttered the mansion. Five years later, she turned it into a tourist attraction to "raise much-needed war funds." After the war, Post relocated to Hillwood, her Washington, D.C., mansion, and none of her children took an interest in Mar-a-Lago. The National Park Service acquired it in 1973, but, daunted by the costs of upkeep, returned it to the Post Foundation after only a year. Current owner Donald Trump acquired the estate in 1986 for $10 million, turned it into a private club in 1994, and used it as the winter White House during his presidency; Shanklin concludes with the 2022 FBI raid to retrieve classified documents from the club. Chronicling 100 years of contentious real estate schemes and failed plots to put "this massive souvenir of the 1920s" to good use, Shanklin demonstrates that Mar-a-Lago has had an unusually variegated history, even compared to similar Gilded Age castles. Readers will be entertained." --Publishers Weekly, "Reading American Castle is like having a tabloid newspaper in front of you and a history book on the side. Or the other way around. Or both; straddling many important historical events, there's enough inside here to satisfy the two genres equally. If you love the history of privilege, politics, or current events, American Castle is a book you won't stop talking about." -- Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Goshen News "...a fast-paced narrative that takes a detailed look into the 118-room, 17-acre estate's history...What lies ahead for Mar-a-Lago isn't known." --Susan Salisbury, Palm Beach Daily News "An enthralling narrative of extreme American opulence and unforgettable characters set within Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago. American Castle is the brilliantly detailed, must-read prologue to the estate's current chapter of excess and scandal." --Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America "A history of a grand mansion and its numerous occupants. . . . A well-told story that's full of surprises, its storied subject generating headlines for a century." -- Kirkus Reviews "An entirely new perspective of the now world-famous Mar-a-Lago. The public tends to look at Mar-a-Lago as the residence of Donald Trump, without realizing that it once belonged to them as part of the National Park Service--and before that to one of the wealthiest and most compelling socialites in American history, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Bookended by the FBI search and Trump's arrest, American Castle is an opulent, lively history of Post's grand estate." --Tim Franklin, Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern University Medill School, former President of the Poynter Institute "Journalist Shanklin debuts with an immersive behind-the-scenes portrait of Mar-a-Lago, the former Palm Beach mansion turned private club. "An ode to Roaring Twenties excess," the 17-acre "winter trophy estate" built by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) cost $3 million and took three years, from 1924 to 1927, to complete. When Post took the reins of the General Foods empire in 1936, becoming one of the first women to "command a global corporation," she shuttered the mansion. Five years later, she turned it into a tourist attraction to "raise much-needed war funds." After the war, Post relocated to Hillwood, her Washington, D.C., mansion, and none of her children took an interest in Mar-a-Lago. The National Park Service acquired it in 1973, but, daunted by the costs of upkeep, returned it to the Post Foundation after only a year. Current owner Donald Trump acquired the estate in 1986 for $10 million, turned it into a private club in 1994, and used it as the winter White House during his presidency; Shanklin concludes with the 2022 FBI raid to retrieve classified documents from the club. Chronicling 100 years of contentious real estate schemes and failed plots to put "this massive souvenir of the 1920s" to good use, Shanklin demonstrates that Mar-a-Lago has had an unusually variegated history, even compared to similar Gilded Age castles. Readers will be entertained." --Publishers Weekly, "An enthralling narrative of extreme American opulence and unforgettable characters set within Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago. American Castle is the brilliantly detailed, must-read prologue to the estate's current chapter of excess and scandal." --Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America "A history of a grand mansion and its numerous occupants. . . . A well-told story that's full of surprises, its storied subject generating headlines for a century." -- Kirkus Reviews "An entirely new perspective of the now world-famous Mar-a-Lago. The public tends to look at Mar-a-Lago as the residence of Donald Trump, without realizing that it once belonged to them as part of the National Park Service--and before that to one of the wealthiest and most compelling socialites in American history, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Bookended by the FBI search and Trump's arrest, American Castle is an opulent, lively history of Post's grand estate." --Tim Franklin, Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern University Medill School, former President of the Poynter Institute, "An enthralling narrative of extreme American opulence and unforgettable characters set within Marjorie Merriweather Post's Mar-a-Lago. American Castle is the brilliantly detailed, must-read prologue to the estate's current chapter of excess and scandal." --Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America "A history of a grand mansion and its numerous occupants. . . . A well-told story that's full of surprises, its storied subject generating headlines for a century." -- Kirkus Reviews "An entirely new perspective of the now world-famous Mar-a-Lago. The public tends to look at Mar-a-Lago as the residence of Donald Trump, without realizing that it once belonged to them as part of the National Park Service--and before that to one of the wealthiest and most compelling socialites in American history, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Bookended by the FBI search and Trump's arrest, American Castle is an opulent, lively history of Post's grand estate." --Tim Franklin, Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern University Medill School, former President of the Poynter Institute "Journalist Shanklin debuts with an immersive behind-the-scenes portrait of Mar-a-Lago, the former Palm Beach mansion turned private club. "An ode to Roaring Twenties excess," the 17-acre "winter trophy estate" built by heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) cost $3 million and took three years, from 1924 to 1927, to complete. When Post took the reins of the General Foods empire in 1936, becoming one of the first women to "command a global corporation," she shuttered the mansion. Five years later, she turned it into a tourist attraction to "raise much-needed war funds." After the war, Post relocated to Hillwood, her Washington, D.C., mansion, and none of her children took an interest in Mar-a-Lago. The National Park Service acquired it in 1973, but, daunted by the costs of upkeep, returned it to the Post Foundation after only a year. Current owner Donald Trump acquired the estate in 1986 for $10 million, turned it into a private club in 1994, and used it as the winter White House during his presidency; Shanklin concludes with the 2022 FBI raid to retrieve classified documents from the club. Chronicling 100 years of contentious real estate schemes and failed plots to put "this massive souvenir of the 1920s" to good use, Shanklin demonstrates that Mar-a-Lago has had an unusually variegated history, even compared to similar Gilded Age castles. Readers will be entertained." --Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace and its American queen Moments before the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E.F. Hutton constructed an estate to outdo all estates. To the tune of $4 million (about $68 million today) and four years of labor they called forth a 118-room mansion in a conflated Spanish, Portuguese, and Venetian design over a coral reef in hurricane-prone Palm Beach County. They named it Mar-a-Lago--a winter haven where corporate titans, the glitterati, and nobility gathered. But the honeymoon didn't last long. In? American Castle , Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post's divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery. It's a story of an American royal who, at the age of 27, inherited a cereal company that would later become the General Foods Corporation and spent a lifetime in business, art collection, philanthropy, and the management of multiple estates--including her white elephant, Mar-a-Lago. Though she tried time again, as Shanklin covers in riveting detail, Post could not offload the behemoth due to its extraordinary maintenance costs and the uppity Palm Beach neighbors. Drawing from previously untapped interviews, documents, and recordings, Shanklin follows Mar-a-Lago's evolution as it collides with the Kennedys, the state of Florida, a potential make-over as The Mar-a-Lago Center for Advanced Scholars, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, the National Park Service, and--of course--Donald Trump, who pursued subdivision, threatened to sell to Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, hosted Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, made it a for-profit club, received scandalous dinner guests, turned it into his Winter White House, and watched the FBI raid before holding a home-court presser as the first former president to face criminal charges. How did the Palm Beach hamlet so lacquered in grace and elegance come to find itself rooted in American Castle: One Hundred Years of Mar-a-Lago., The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace and its American queen Moments before the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E.F. Hutton constructed an estate to outdo all estates. To the tune of $4 million (about $68 million today) and four years of labor they called forth a 118-room mansion in a conflated Spanish, Portuguese, and Venetian design over a coral reef in hurricane-prone Palm Beach County. They named it Mar-a-Lago--a winter haven where corporate titans, the glitterati, and nobility gathered. But the honeymoon didn't last long. In American Castle , Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post's divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery. It's a story of an American royal who, at the age of 27, inherited a cereal company that would later become the General Foods Corporation and spent a lifetime in business, art collection, philanthropy, and the management of multiple estates--including her white elephant, Mar-a-Lago. Though she tried time again, as Shanklin covers in riveting detail, Post could not offload the behemoth due to its extraordinary maintenance costs and the uppity Palm Beach neighbors. Drawing from previously untapped interviews, documents, and recordings, Shanklin follows Mar-a-Lago's evolution as it collides with the Kennedys, the state of Florida, a potential make-over as The Mar-a-Lago Center for Advanced Scholars, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, the National Park Service, and--of course--Donald Trump, who pursued subdivision, threatened to sell to Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, hosted Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, made it a for-profit club, received scandalous dinner guests, turned it into his Winter White House, and watched the FBI raid before holding a home-court presser as the first former president to face criminal charges. How did the Palm Beach hamlet so lacquered in grace and elegance come to find itself rooted in American Castle: One Hundred Years of Mar-a-Lago.
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