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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780312699444
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312699441
ISBN-13
9780312699444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113493297
Product Key Features
Book Title
Inventing Elsa Maxwell : How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Women
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-026406
Reviews
"Elsa was a huge personality who led an amazing life; she knew everyone and everyone knew her. If you relish, as I do, the stories of old Hollywood, you'll love this bookand you might end up loving her too!"actress Miriam Margolyes "Only in America could Elsa have lived the life she did. What a talent Sam Staggs is to be able to write so entertaining a book about a phenomenon."-Robert Wagner, actor and author of Pieces of My Heart " Elsa venit, ea vidit, ea vicit : Elsa came, she saw, she conquered. What a gal! Sam Staggs' riveting biography of the high-priestess of the twentieth century is a real page turner. It reads like a good thriller, transporting the reader back to a time of real glamour, riveting drama, scandal, two world wars, high aristocracy, betrayal, suicide, kings and queens, and world leaders."-HSH Principessa Rita Boncampagni Ludovisi, "Elsa was a huge personality who led an amazing life; she knew everyone and everyone knew her. If you relish, as I do, the stories of old Hollywood, you'll love this book-and you might end up loving her too!" -- actress Miriam Margolyes "Only in America could Elsa have lived the life she did. What a talent Sam Staggs is to be able to write so entertaining a book about a phenomenon." -- Robert Wagner, actor and author of Pieces of My Heart "Elsa venit, ea vidit, ea vicit : Elsa came, she saw, she conquered. What a gal! Sam Staggs' riveting biography of the high-priestess of the twentieth century is a real page turner. It reads like a good thriller, transporting the reader back to a time of real glamour, riveting drama, scandal, two world wars, high aristocracy, betrayal, suicide, kings and queens, and world leaders." -- HSH Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, Elsa venit, ea vidit, ea vicit : Elsa came, she saw, she conquered. What a gal! Sam Staggs' riveting biography of the high-priestess of the twentieth century is a real page turner. It reads like a good thriller, transporting the reader back to a time of real glamour, riveting drama, scandal, two world wars, high aristocracy, betrayal, suicide, kings and queens, and world leaders., Elsa was a huge personality who led an amazing life; she knew everyone and everyone knew her. If you relish, as I do, the stories of old Hollywood, you'll love this book-and you might end up loving her too!, Only in America could Elsa have lived the life she did. What a talent Sam Staggs is to be able to write so entertaining a book about a phenomenon., "Elsa was a huge personality who led an amazing life; she knew everyone and everyone knew her. If you relish, as I do, the stories of old Hollywood, you'll love this bookand you might end up loving her too!"actress Miriam Margolyes "Only in America could Elsa have lived the life she did. What a talent Sam Staggs is to be able to write so entertaining a book about a phenomenon."-Robert Wagner, actor and author of Pieces of My Heart "Elsa venit, ea vidit, ea vicit : Elsa came, she saw, she conquered. What a gal! Sam Staggs' riveting biography of the high-priestess of the twentieth century is a real page turner. It reads like a good thriller, transporting the reader back to a time of real glamour, riveting drama, scandal, two world wars, high aristocracy, betrayal, suicide, kings and queens, and world leaders."-HSH Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
974.7/23044092 B
Synopsis
One of the twentieth century's most colorful characters brought back to life in this biography by the author of All About All About Eve With Inventing Elsa Maxwell , Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself-not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and predictability, Elsa established herself as party-giver extraordinaire in Europe with come-as-you-are parties, treasure hunts (e.g., retrieve a slipper from the foot of a singer at the Casino de Paris), and murder parties that drew the ire of the British parliament. She set New York a-twitter with her soirees at the Waldorf, her costume parties, and her headline-grabbing guest lists of the rich and royal, movie stars, society high and low, and those on the make all mixed together in let-'er-rip gaiety. All the while, Elsa dashed off newspaper columns, made films in Hollywood, wrote bestselling books, and turned up on TV talk shows. She hobnobbed with friends like Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Late inlife, she fell in love with Maria Callas, who spurned her and broke Elsa's heart. Her feud with the Duchess of Windsor made headlines for three years in the 1950s. Inventing Elsa Maxwell , the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud., One of the twentieth century's most colorful characters brought back to life in this biography by the author of "All About All About Eve"With "Inventing Elsa Maxwell," Sam Staggs has crafted a landmark biography. Elsa Maxwell (1881-1963) invented herself not once, but repeatedly. Built like a bulldog, she ascended from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo. Shunning boredom and predictability, Elsa established herself as party-giver extraordinaire in Europe with come-as-you-are parties, treasure hunts (e.g., retrieve a slipper from the foot of a singer at the Casino de Paris), and murder parties that drew the ire of the British parliament. She set New York a-twitter with her soirees at the Waldorf, her costume parties, and her headline-grabbing guest lists of the rich and royal, movie stars, society high and low, and those on the make all mixed together in let-'er-rip gaiety. All the while, Elsa dashed off newspaper columns, made films in Hollywood, wrote bestselling books, and turned up on TV talk shows. She hobnobbed with friends like Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Late in life, she fell in love with Maria Callas, who spurned her and broke Elsa's heart. Her feud with the Duchess of Windsor made headlines for three years in the 1950s. "Inventing Elsa Maxwell," the first biography of this extraordinary woman, tells the witty story of a life lived out loud."
LC Classification Number
CT275.M464718S73
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