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Among the mansions of Eden : tales of love, lust, and land in Beverly Hills
- Title
- Among the mansions of Eden : tales of love, lust, and land in Beverly Hills / David Weddle.
- Author
- Weddle, David.
- Publication
- New York : Morrow, [2003], ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F869.B57 W43 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Among the Mansions of Eden is a fascinating and dishy exploration of Beverly Hills - a rarefied community that has become a part of our country's mythos, a city renowned for its ostentatious displays of wealth. It takes you behind the gates of the rich and famous for an insider's view of the elite's rapturous and tragic attempts to realize the American Dream."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-330) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Billionaires' Horseshoe -- 2. High Cotton -- 3. Bachelor in Paradise -- 4. The East Side Kids -- 5. The Persian Frank Sinatra -- 6. "Beverly Hills Is My Country" -- 7. Security Chic -- 8. High Times -- 9. The Maginot Line -- 10. Death of a Salesman -- 11. The Last Mountaintop.
- ISBN
- 0060198176 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2002026421
- OCLC
- ocm50090103
- SCSB-4347416
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries