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Gordon, Meryl.
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Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
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Gordon, Meryl.
Mellon, Paul, Mrs.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- United States -- Biography.
Women gardeners -- United States -- Biography.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
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Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend / Meryl Gordon.
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Gordon, Meryl.
Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Call #:
361.74092 M527g
Subjects
Mellon, Paul, Mrs.
Upper class women -- United States -- Biography.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Rich people -- United States -- Biography.
Women gardeners -- United States -- Biography.
Women philanthropists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781455588749 (hc.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
ix, 516 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Color illustrations on end papers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-497) and index.
Contents:
President Kennedy has a request -- Fifty summers later -- The auction of the decade -- Childhood treasures: a bottle and a book -- The making of a young gardener -- Tally-ho in Virginia -- The debutante dances through the Depression -- A courteous girl and a thorough gentleman -- Paul Mellon's rebellion -- The war years -- Millions of reasons to remarry -- The best-dressed list -- A constant gardener -- The best friends -- A rose by any other name -- November 22, 1963 -- Carrying on -- 1968 -- Paul and Bunny in love--with others -- The spending of a robber baron fortune -- The book stops here -- Entertaining the royals (again) -- Exits and entrances -- Enduring the unendurable -- A perilous political affair -- The FBI makes house calls -- Everything should be noticed.
Summary:
Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who lived in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. She died in 2014 at age 103 and was press-shy during her lifetime.
Rachel
Lowe
Lambert
Lloyd Mellon (1910 - 2014), often known as Bunny Mellon, was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector. She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books. She was the eldest child of Gerard Barnes
Lambert
, president of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and a founder of the pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert, the makers of Listerine. She became the second wife of Paul Mellon, co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, derived from the Mellon Bank created by his grandfather and father. Together the couple collected and donated more than a thousand works of art, mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings, to the National Gallery of Art.
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