The Social Graces Author:Renee Rosen One of the most remarkable feuds in history: Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gilded Age... In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, where wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independe... more »nce, society is everything.
The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman.
And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor... the Mrs. Astor.
But times are changing.
Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families. But what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you?
Alva, who knows what it is to have nothing, will do whatever it takes to have everything.« less