7517318Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Timehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/glitz--glam--and-a-damn-good-time-9780306834622/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7127105/image.jpg?v=638827847463770000286349MXNGrand Central PublishingInStock/Ebooks/From the author of Madame Restell and Get Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige.Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known by the nicknames Mamie and The Fun-Maker, threw the most epic parties in American history. This Gilded Age icon brought it all: lavish decor; A-list invitees; booze; pranks; and large animal guest stars. If you were a member of New York high society in the Peak Age of Innocence Era, you simply had to be on Mamie Fishs guest list. Mamie Fish understood that people didnt just need the formality of prior generations they needed wit and whimsy.Make no mistake, however: Mamie Fishs story is about so much more than partying. In Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time, readers will learn all about how Fish and her friends shaped the line of history, exerting their influence on business, politics, family relationships, and social change through elaborate social gatherings. In a time when women couldnt even own property, let alone run for office, if women wanted any of the things men got outside the homeglory, money, attention, social networking, leadership rolesthey had to do it by throwing a decadent soiree or chairing a cotillion.To ensure people would hear and remember what she had to say, Mamie Fish lived her whole life at Volume 10, becoming famous not by playing the part of a saintly helpmeet, but by letting her demanding, bitchy, hilarious, dramatic freak flag fly. Its time to let modern readers in on the fun, the fabulousness, and the absolute ferocity that is Ms. Stuyvesant Fishand her inimitable legacy....7137746Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time286349https://www.gandhi.com.mx/glitz--glam--and-a-damn-good-time-9780306834622/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/7127105/image.jpg?v=638827847463770000InStockMXN99999PR_DIEbook2025Inglés