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Society As I Have Found It by Ward McAllister

Society As I Have Found It

Ward McAllister

120 pages first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted slow-paced
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McAllister (1827-95) was the self-appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s. He coined the phrase "The Four Hundred" which, according to him, was the number of people in New York who really mattered, and named the off...

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