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  • A WRITER WRITES
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    A WRITER WRITES
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    A memoir by the New York Times–bestselling author and longtime chronicler of America's wealthy elite. Born in Connecticut in 1929 and educated at Williams College, Stephen Birmingham went on to create a literary niche with his numerous nonfiction works about New York's—and the nation's—upper class, particularly focusing on Jewish, African American, and Irish communities, as wel...

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  • THE NOVELS OF STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
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    THE NOVELS OF STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    A quartet of novels from the New York Times–bestselling author of " Our Crowd" and master chronicler of Manhattan's rich, famous, and deceitful. These four gripping novels prove that "when it comes to the folkways of the rich, the powerful, and the privileged, Stephen Birmingham knows what he's talking about" ( Los Angeles Times).   Carriage Trade: One of New York's most elegan...

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  • THE JEWS IN AMERICA TRILOGY
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    THE JEWS IN AMERICA TRILOGY
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    Three New York Times bestsellers chronicle the rise of America's most influential Jewish families as they transition from poor immigrants to household names. In his acclaimed trilogy, author Stephen Birmingham paints an engrossing portrait of Jewish American life from the colonial era through the twentieth century with fascinating narrative and meticulous research.   The collec...

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  • THE AUERBACH WILL
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    THE AUERBACH WILL
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    A poignant and unforgettable rags-to-riches family saga following three generations of a remarkable clan from downtown ghetto to Park Avenue opulence   Marrying Jack Auerbach was Essie Litsky's salvation, enabling her to break free of her strict Russian-Jewish immigrant parents and escape New York's poor, dirty, overcrowded Lower East Side. Together with her husband, Essie amas...

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  • THE WRONG KIND OF MONEY
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    THE WRONG KIND OF MONEY
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    A gripping novel of dark family secrets, bigotry, lust, and lies set in the world of the phenomenally wealthy The Liebling family is among the wealthiest in New York, but in the eyes of "old money" gentile aristocrats like the patrician Van Degans, they will always be lower-class Jewish nouveau riche—especially since it's common knowledge that patriarch Jules Liebling built the...

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  • THE GRANDEES
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    THE GRANDEES
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    The New World's earliest Jewish immigrants and their unique, little-known history: A New York Times bestseller from the author of Life at the Dakota. In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under M...

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  • SHADES OF FORTUNE
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    SHADES OF FORTUNE
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of "Our Crowd": A novel of a powerful family, a cosmetics empire, and the dark secrets that could destroy both. Mireille "Mimi" Myerson took her grandfather's struggling cosmetics company and turned it into an empire. But suddenly, as she prepares to launch a new perfume line, Mimi is faced with hidden threats at every turn. Her effort...

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  • THE LEBARON SECRET
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    THE LEBARON SECRET
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    An aging California vintner is determined to protect her empire from a hostile family takeover and the dark secrets that could destroy everything she loves At age seventy-four, Assaria "Sari" LeBaron is still a force to be reckoned with. For decades, she has run the Baronet Vineyards, one of California's largest and most successful wine producers, maintaining sole control even ...

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  • CARRIAGE TRADE
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    CARRIAGE TRADE
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    The suspicious death of a New York retail tycoon reveals dangerous cracks in a family's foundation in this page-turning novel of wealth, jealousy, betrayal, and murder One of New York's most elegant and exclusive retail establishments, Tarkington's has been the preferred shopping experience of Manhattan's elite for decades. But the unexpected death of founder Silas Tarkington h...

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  • REAL LACE
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    REAL LACE
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    Extraordinary true stories of the Irish in America, their remarkable rise from urban poverty, and the powerful dynasties they engendered Author Stephen Birmingham, who chronicled the rise of Jewish immigrants to extraordinary wealth and success in "Our Crowd", now turns his attention to the Irish. Real Lace tells the colorful and fascinating true stories of America's most renow...

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    "OUR CROWD"
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    The #1  New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish fam...

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  • LIFE AT THE DAKOTA
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    LIFE AT THE DAKOTA
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of "Our Crowd". When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed "the Dakota" for being as far from the center of the downtown action as ...

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    "THE REST OF US"
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    The New York Times–bestselling history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood. The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from c...

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  • THE RIGHT PEOPLE
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    THE RIGHT PEOPLE
    STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM
    An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd" It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple...

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