| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Roy Blount Jr. -- The lady and the doctor -- Clothes encounters -- Lip service -- Portrait of a lady -- A case study -- On the scent -- Knee high -- Witness at the execution -- Woman of the world -- Sister act -- Winning combination -- André Leon Talley's deep Southern roots -- Diary of a spa -- Fountain of youth -- Accidental Africa -- Our girl in Havana -- Slow train to China -- Extreme makeover -- Dis engaged -- The party line -- Whose life is it anyway? -- The "I don't" honeymoon -- Southern sideshow -- Food memories from the South (of France) -- Crazy for catfish -- Secrets of a Southern hostess -- Cooking through COVID -- The Southern name change -- Cat tails -- A Delta housewarming -- All praise Willie Nelson -- The politics of a summer escape -- Out to pasture -- JT in my mind -- Sheltering ... at home -- My home is my (animal) kingdom. |
| Summary |
"Dispatches from the Gilded Age is a collection of essays by Julia Reed, one of America's greatest chroniclers. 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 her alma mater, the Madeira School. 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, Madeleine Albright, and others. Readers will travel to Africa and Cuba with Julia, dine at Le Bernardin, 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 Julia's longtime assistant, Everett Bexley"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Reed, Julia.
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Reed, Julia -- Travel.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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United States -- Humor.
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HISTORY / United States / General.
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Reed, Julia. (OCoLC)fst01790945
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1970
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| Genre/Form |
Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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Essays.
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Humor.
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| Added Author |
Bexley, Everett, editor.
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Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941- author of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781250279439 (hardcover) |
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1250279437 (hardcover) |
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9781250279446 (ebook) |
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