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kathleen_gillies 's review for:
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
by Allison Pataki
I read this book on Sunday and while it was pretty informative, it did kind of devolve into a laundry list of the events of Marjorie Post's life. I found the beginning very interesting but once she married.. it would start out great and then, without fail described these men failing her. I found it bizarre how her third husband just inexplicably became a mean person. I also found it strange there was no mention of prenup agreements. Anyhow, it did not really give me any real insight into the person that Marjorie Post was. I did not learn the people her daughters were either. Her relationship with her father was the best part. I found the lives of the super wealthy to be pretty boring and kind of obscene. The fact that she would have occasional guilty pangs of the hedonism her class exhibited, and actually noticed that her staff and servants sweated and worked hard to make her and her family's lives easy, well, I honestly believe that it was part of the writer's creative process, not necessarily based on reality (this is a fictionalized account). I suppose it is not any wonder that Trump purchased her MarALago since she was also someone who loved to create ostentatious living quarters.