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Author Margerie, Caroline de.

Title American lady : the life of Susan Mary Alsop / Caroline de Margerie ; introduction by Frances Fitzgerald ; translated by Christopher Murray.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B ALSOP    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 ALSOP, SUS    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "Originally published in French as American Lady: Une reporter en gants blancs by Editions Robert Laffont, Paris" -- T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-220) and index.
Summary An American aristocrat -- a descendant of founding father John Jay -- Susan Mary Alsop (1918-2004) knew absolutely everyone and brought together the movers and shakers of not just the United States, but the world. In American Lady, the first biography of Susan Mary Alsop, the author reveals the complex and fascinating woman who truly witnessed, in novelist Nancy Mitford's words, "history on the boil."
Contents The Jays -- On the edge of life -- Paris -- Affairs of the heart -- The age of serenity -- When shadows fall -- At the court of King Jack -- Anatomy of a marriage -- The pleasure of writing -- And night came.
Subject Alsop, Susan Mary.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Upper class -- United States -- Biography.
Socialites -- United States -- Biography.
Alsop, Susan Mary -- Friends and associates.
Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
United States -- Biography.
Paris (France) -- Biography.
Political culture -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Added Title American lady. English
ISBN 9780670025749: $26.95
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