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An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of Americas extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of Our Crowd
Its 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. Theres Society, and then theres Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter. Real Society is not about the moneyor rather, its not only about the moneyit is about history, breeding, tradition, and most of all, the name.
The Right People is an engrossing and illuminating journey through the customs and habits of the phenomenally wealthy, from the San Francisco elite to the upper crust of New Yorks Westchester County. It is a marvelously anecdotal, intimately detailed overview of the lives of the American aristocracy: where they gather and dine; their games and sports, clubs and parties, friendships and feuds; their mating, marriage, and divorce ritualsa potpourri of priceless true stories featuring the Astors, Goulds, Vanderbilts, Vanderlips, Dukes, Biddles, and other lofty names from the pages of the Social Register.

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PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF STEPHEN BIRMINGHAM

The Auerbach Will

A New York Times Bestseller

Has the magic word bestseller written all over it Birminghams narrative drive never falters and his characters are utterly convincing. John Barkham Reviews

Delicious secretsscandals, blackmail, affairs, adultery the gossipy Uptown/Downtown milieu Birmingham knows so well. Kirkus Reviews

An engrossing family saga. USA Today

Colorful, riveting, bubbling like champagne. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Poignant and engrossing Has all the ingredients for a bestseller. Publishers Weekly

The Rest of Us

A New York Times Bestseller

Breezy and entertaining, full of gossip and spice! The Washington Post

Rich anecdotal and dramatic material Prime social-vaudeville entertainment. Kirkus Reviews

Wonderful stories All are interesting and many are truly inspirational. The Dallas Morning News

Entertaining from first page to last Those who read it will be better for the experience. Chattanooga Times Free Press

Birmingham writes with a deft pen and insightful researchers eye. The Cincinnati Enquirer

Mixing facts, gossip, and insight The narrative is engaging. Library Journal

Immensely readable Told with a narrative flair certain to win many readers. Publishers Weekly

The Right People

A New York Times Bestseller

Platinum mounted The mind boggles. San Francisco Examiner

To those who say society is dead, Stephen Birmingham offers evidence that it is alive and well. Newsweek

The games some people play manners among the moneyed WASPs of America The best book of its kind. Look

The beautiful people of le beau monde Mrs. Adolf Spreckels with her twenty-five bathrooms Dorothy Spreckels Munns chinchilla bedspread the St. Grottlesex Set of the New England prep schools, sockless in blazers the clubs the social sports love and marriagewhich seem to be the only aspect which might get grubbier. Its all entertaining. Kirkus Reviews

It glitters and sparkles. Youll love The Right People. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A fun book about Americas snobocracy Rich in curiosa More entertaining than Our Crowd Stephen Birmingham has done a masterly job. Saturday Review

Take a look at some of his topics: the right prep schools, the coming out party, the social rankings of the various colleges, the Junior League, the ultra-exclusive clubs, the places to live, the places to play, why the rich marry the rich, how they raise their children. This is an inside book. The Washington Star

All the creamy people The taboo delight of a hidden American aristocracy with all its camouflages stripped away. Tom Wolfe, Chicago Sun-Times

The Wrong Kind of Money

Fast and wonderful. Something for everyone. The Cincinnati Enquirer

Dark doings in Manhattan castles, done with juicy excess. A titillating novel that reads like a dream. Stunning. Kirkus Reviews

Birmingham certainly keeps the pages turning. Fans will feel at home. The Baltimore Sun

The Right People

The Social Establishment in America

Stephen Birmingham

For Harry Sions

Preface

A little more than ten years ago, I first met the man to whom this book is dedicated in the office of the late and justly celebrated literary agent, Carl Brandt. I was a young writer who had published a few short stories, a bit of verse (a secret vice), and was at the time working on my first novel, or First Novel. I had been led, by the best of Eastern-college creative-writing courses, and by the newest of the New Critics, to believe that fiction was somehow holier than nonfiction (though most modern fiction wasnt very good), and that factual reportage was a somewhat spurious endeavor. There was a world of difference, I had been taught, between an author (of novels) and a mere journalist. The purpose of the meeting in Carl Brandts office was to discuss whether I might also turn my handmy phraseto nonfiction.

The first article I wrote for Harry Sions was returned to me rather promptly for repairs. Let us say they were extensive. Indeed, they were total. Grimly, I attacked the piece again, and once more it was returned for repairs only slightly less extensive than before. I dont remember how many times this sequence of events repeated itself after this, but I do know that by the time the article was finally accepted I hated Harry Sions. It was several days before my equanimity returned and I realized that I was grateful.

For a number of years Harry Sions edited, scolded, stimulated, badgered, inspired, charmed, and browbeat Holiday writers. He is not a hand-holding sort of editor. Great is his glee when he can find a reason for requiring this or that Great Name in American literature to revise, repair, rewrite, or when he can reject altogether a piece of writing that does not meet his stiff and spiky standards. Harry Sions taught me two things. He taught me how to write nonfiction. And he taught me that the American upper-class surroundings and training (including The Right School) and institutions (including the junior dances) which I had grown up with, and had merely endured, were both interesting and exceptionally worth writing about.

Over the years, I wrote a number of pieces for Harry Sions which dealt with Society and the institutions it supports (and which, in turn, support it and help keep High Society aloft), and these pieces, along with quite a bit of new material, the result of further researches and reflections, are at the heartif that is not too strong a wordof this book.

S. B .

Contents

Part One

THE SOCIAL ESTABLISHMENT:

Growing Up Upper

Who Are Who?

In America, there is Society. Then there is Real Society. Real Society is a part of Societythe upper part. Everybody who is in Society knows who the people in Real Society are. But the people in Real Society do not necessarily know who the other Society people are. The two groups seldom mix. Real Society is composed of older people. It is composed of older families. Older families are better people. Better people are nicer people. Newer people may be richer people than older people. That doesnt matter. Ordinary Society people may get to be Real Society people one day only if they work at it. It sounds confusing, but it is really very simple. Cream rises to the top.

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