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Author Griswold, Mac, author.

Title I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon / Mac Griswold.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY MELLON    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 539 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary "The story of Bunny Mellon, the great landscape architect and interior designer, becomes a revelatory exploration of extreme wealth in the American century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Childhood and family -- The path to happiness -- Bunny's new path -- Oak Spring Farm in Virginia -- Bunny and the Kennedys -- A garden fit for a king -- For everything there is a season -- The garden library -- Meetings and farewells.
Subject Mellon, Bunny, 1910-2014.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Gardeners -- United States -- Biography.
Women gardeners -- United States -- Biography.
Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Mellon, Bunny, 1910-2014 (OCoLC)fst00004293
Gardeners. (OCoLC)fst00937845
Philanthropists. (OCoLC)fst01060593
Upper class women. (OCoLC)fst01162155
Women gardeners. (OCoLC)fst01177699
Women philanthropists. (OCoLC)fst01178284
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9780374279882 (hardcover)
0374279888 (hardcover)
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