Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of the Sephardic elite--an insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons.
Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America—frequently in less than a generation’s time—out of poverty into positions of both
Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy, from Roberta Flack to John Lennon, who called The Dakota "home", despite the fact this