| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (360 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Ed Herrmann. |
| Summary |
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness. In 1893, railroad mogul Sam Driver, one of the few surviving robber barons of the lawless years after the Civil War, knocks on the door of fabled Newport with his daughter, Jenny, determined not to be turned away. In the past, his "new money" was tainted by his rapacious reputation, and even now, an enemy with a pedigree of wealth and position vows to slam every door in Sam's face. But he is determined to win a place in the strange rarefied world of Newport's brief summer season, presided over by social gadflies Ward McAllister and the androgynous Harry Lehr, both of whom will assist the Drivers...for a price. The Gods of Newport brings this gilded age of excess to thrilling life. It was a time and place whose extremes of greed, conspicuous consumption, and social striving have an astonishing resonance and relevance for the America we see around us today. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Newport (R.I.) -- Fiction.
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Upper class -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Herrmann, Edward, 1943-2014.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743565219 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0743565215 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12420845 |
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