Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
Contents:
A capitol day -- Death's door -- Born on a bed of coral -- The truth about Florida -- The circus -- "An insouciant minx" -- Monumental albatrosses -- "Luster's last stand" -- Lady Bird lands -- The president and Bebe -- Smithsonian sway -- Mar-a-Lago national park -- Park barrel politics -- The sinking of the outrageous -- Trump's house of cards -- Raided and arrested.
Summary:
"The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace. Emerging from family tragedy and newfound chances, the story of Mar-a-Lago starts even before heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and investor E.F. Hutton built this ode to the Roaring Twenties excess atop a coral reef in south Florida. The very vision tore apart the design team, with the chief architect disavowing his work there. Yet ever as the hood ornament of Palm Beach society, not even a catastrophic hurricane could deter winter revelries there. And in a historic trajectory no one predicted, this 126-room wonder would withstand mutual adultery, high-stakes divorces, ruinous development plans, apathetic heirs, and financial collapsed. The controversies only mounted.
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