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Please cite as: Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia. “Gilded Age: A Selected Bibliography” www.spinzialongislandestates.com Gilded Age: A Selected Bibliography compiled by Raymond E. and Judith A. Spinzia . AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992. Aldrich, Nelson W., Jr. Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Aldrich, Nelson W., IV. “The Upper Class, Up for Grabs.” Wilson Quarterly 17:3 (Summer 1993). Allaback, Sarah. The First American Women Architects. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Allen, Michael Patrick. The Founding Fortunes: A New Anatomy of the Super–Rich Families in America. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987. Alsop, Joseph W. “I’ve Seen the Best of It: Memoirs.” New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992. Amory, Cleveland. Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1959. [Published intermittently. Since 1973 it has been edited by Earl Blackwell.] Amory, Cleveland. The Last Resorts. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Amory, Cleveland. The Proper Bostonians. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1947. Amory, Cleveland. Who Killed Society? New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960. Armour, Lawrence A. The Young Millionaires. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973. Armstrong, Hamilton Fish. Those Days. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1963. Armstrong, Margaret. Five Generations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Ashburn, Frank D. Peabody of Groton. New York: Coward, McCann & Co., 1944. Aslet, Clive. The American Country Home. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. Aslet, Clive. The Last Country Houses. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Auchincloss, Louis. The Rector of Justin. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1964. 1 Auchincloss, Louis. The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1989. Bailey, Paul. Long Island: A History of Two Counties. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1949. Baker, John C. American Country Homes and Their Gardens. Philadelphia: C. Winston, 1906. Baker, Paul R. Richard Morris Hunt. New York: MIT Press, 1980. Balmori, Diana, Diana Kostial McGuire, and Eleanor M. McPeck. Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes: Her Gardens and Campuses. Sagaponack, NY: Sagapress, 1985. Baltzel, E. Digby. The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America. New York: Random House, 1964. Baltzel, E. Digby. The Protestant Establishment Revisited. New Brunswick, NJ: New Jersey Transaction Publishers, 1991. Baron, Stanley Wade. Brewed in America. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1962. Barrett, Richmond. Good Old Summer Days. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1952. Batterberry, Michael and Ariane Batterberry. Mirror, Mirror. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977. Bayles, Richard M. Bayles’ Long Island Handbook. Babylon, NY: privately printed, 1885. Beach, Moses Yale. Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City. New York: The Sun Office, 1845. Beard, Patricia. After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Bedford, Stephen and Richard Guy Wilson. The Long Island Country House, 1870–1930. Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1988. Beebee, Lucius Morris. The Big Spenders. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1966. Beebee, Lucius. Mansion On Rails: The Folklore of the Private Railway Car. Berkeley, CA: Howell–North, 1959. Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the 19th Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1926. “Behind the Gates of the Last Estates.” Newsday September 25, 1986. Bender, Marilyn. The Beautiful People. New York: Coward–McCann, Inc., 1967. Bendix, Reinhard and Seymour Martin Lipset, ed. Class, Status and Power. New York: The Free Press, 1966. Beveridge, Charles and Paul Rocheleau. Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1995. 2 Biddle, Francis. A Casual Past. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1961. Biddle, Francis. The Llanfear Pattern. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Bigelow, Poultney. Seventy Summers. 2 vols. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1925. Birmingham, Stephen. America's Secret Aristocracy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1987. Birmingham, Stephen. The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971. Birmingham, Stephen. The Grandes Dames. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1982. Birmingham, Stephen. Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967. Birmingham, Stephen. Real Lace: America's Irish Rich. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973. Birmingham, Stephen. “The Rest of Us:” The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1984. Birmingham, Stephen. The Right People: A Portrait of the American Social Establishment. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1968. Birmingham, Stephen. The Right Places for the Right People. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973. Bleyer, Bill. “The Forgotten Roosevelt.” Newsday October 6, 1985:10-12, 25. Bloom, Murray Teigh. Rogues To Riches: The Trouble With Wall Street. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. Boegner, Peggie Phipps and Richard Gachot. Halcyon Days: An American Family Through Three Generations. New York: Old Westbury Gardens and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Bolton, Sarah. Famous Givers and Their Gifts. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1896. Bradley, Hugh. Such Was Saratoga. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. Brandon, Ruth. The Dollar Princesses: Sagas of Upward Nobility, 1870–1914. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Bremner, Robert H. American Philanthropy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Bremner, Robert H. American Social History Since 1860. Des Moines, IA: Meridith Corporation, 1971. Brooklyn Blue Book. Brooklyn, NY: Rugby Press, Inc., annual. Brooklyn Blue Book and Long Island Society Register. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Life Publishing Co., annual. Brooklyn Blue Book and Long Island Society Register. Brooklyn, NY: Rugby Press, Inc., annual. Brooks, John. Once In Galconda. A True Drama of Wall Street 1920–1938. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1969. Brooks, John. Showing Off in America. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981. 3 Browder, Clifford. The Money Game In Old New York: Daniel Drew and His Times. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Brown, Jane. Beatrix: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872–1959. New York: Viking Penguin Books, 1995. Browne, Irving. Our Best Society. New York: Samuel French, 1875. Buenker, John D. and Joseph Buenker. Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2005. Burr, Anna Robeson. The Portrait of a Banker: James Stillman, 1850–1918. New York: Duffield & Co., 1927. Burt, Nathaniel. First Families. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. Burt, Nathaniel. The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963. Byrnes, Rev. Horace W. Pictorial Bay Shore and Vicinity: A Souvenir. Bay Shore, NY: privately printed, 1903. Cable, Mary. Top Drawer: American Society from Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties. New York: Atheneum, 1984. Cantacuzene, Princess. My Life Here and There. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Cantor, Jay E. Winterthur: The Foremost Museum of American Furniture and Decorative Arts. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Capen, Oliver Bronson. Country Homes of Famous Americans. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Carson, Gerald. The Polite Americans. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1966. Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: New York University Press, 1988. Catlin, Daniel, Jr. Good Work Well Done: The Sugar Business Career of Horace Havemeyer, 1903-1956. privately printed, 1988. Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop [Margaret]. Autumn in the Valley. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1936. Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop [Margaret]. Roman Spring. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1934. Chase, Edna Woolman and Ilka Chase. Always in Vogue. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1954. Churchill, Allen. The Splendor Seekers: An Informal Glimpse of America's Multimillionaire Spenders – Members of the $50,000,000 Club. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1974. Churchill, Allen. The Upper Crust: An Informal History of New York's Highest Society. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970. 4 Clark, Herma. The Elegant Eighties. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1941. Clark, Judith Freeman. America’s Gilded Age: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Clews, Henry. Fifty Years in Wall Street. New York: Irving Publishing Co., 1908. Close, Leslie Rose. Portrait of an Era in Landscape Architecture: The Photographs of Mattie Edwards Hewitt. The Bronx, NY: Wave Hill, 1983. Cochran, Thomas and William Miller. The Age of Enterprise: A Social History of Industrial America. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1961. Cochran, Thomas C. Railroad Leaders: 1845-1890. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World
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