Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age, (Paperback)

from jslantz1948

Interesting biography, a bit tedious at times, it could have used more editing; parts for it went on and on about trivial details (and in some instances pages later went on about it/them again), at other times there was only a paragraph or two on some information upon which she could/should have ...

from jslantz1948

Interesting biography, a bit tedious at times, it could have used more editing; parts for it went on and on about trivial details (and in some instances pages later went on about it/them again), at other times there was only a paragraph or two on some information upon which she could/should have ...

from rierie

This book was interesting in it's description of the history and sociology of the "Golden Age", America in the 1920s. However, so much was written on Alva's involvement in the suffrage movement that I found myself burdened by all the details so I put the book away for a month. But my personal pre...

from Schmerguls

5104. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age, by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart (read 23 Dec 2013) This is a biography of Consuelo, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and of her mother. I was interested in the book because of the famed annulment of Consue...

from shojo_a

I ended up returning this after flogging through about 3/4 of it. this book wasn't bad, but it wasn't very interesting either. it just kind of plodded along. I learned some interesting things about the idleness of wealthy women in the US vs their English counterparts who did a lot of charity work...