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octavietullier 's review for:
The Glitter and the Gold
by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
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An ode to Consuelo Vanderbilt told by herself with charming false modesty. Though she touches upon some personal events (notably her girlhood and flight from France), it is mostly retellings of her accomplishments, lengthy descriptions of her houses and not so objective anecdotes about the European elite of the time. Interesting, but I'll take it with a grain of salt. Whatever her first husband's faults might have been, she tries really hard to pass him off as equally shallow and incompetent.