Dispatches from the Gilded Age

A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far-Flung Places, and the Joys of Southern Comforts

Dispatches from the Gilded Age
Julia Reed
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Hardback
h233 x 154mm - 320pg
23 Aug 2022 US
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9781250279439
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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 the Madeira School where she had been a student. 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, Madeline Albright, and others. Readers will travel to Africa and Cuba with Julia, dine at Le Bernardin, drink at the Ritz Hotel in Paris, 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 her longtime assistant, Everett Bexley, Dispatches from the Gilded Age establishes Julia Reed as one of America' s greatest chroniclers.
Sharp and fearless, these essays are a fitting tribute to Reed' s life and career. --Publishers Weekly A selection of sparkling essays by a great Southern wit, foodie, fashionista, and prose stylist. . . There is life after death--at least for an essayist with this much verve on the page. --Kirkus Reviews
JULIA REED (1960-2020) was a contributing editor at Garden & Gun, where she wrote the magazine' s "The High & the Low" column. Her books include But Mama Always Puts Vodka in Her Sangria; Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties; and Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena. Reed divided her time between New Orleans and Greenville, Mississippi.

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