Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach by Hyperion
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Guest Reviewer: Meryl Gordon, Author of Mrs. Astor Regrets

Just the name--Palm Beach--conjures up an American fantasy of wealth, privilege and exclusivity. Laurence Leamer, in his well-written and entertaining new book, Madness Under the Royal Palms, offers up an inside look at this playground of the rich, and its under-class of social-climbing wannabes. Tracing the history of Palm Beach and its magnificent real estate, describing the fabulous parties, investigating some of the city's sordid secrets, Leamer's book provides a memorable, and at times haunting, portrayal of high society at a moment of transition, where things are often not what they seem. Read more Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

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