Bunny Mellon the life of an American style legend

"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who die...

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Main Author: Gordon, Meryl (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Edition: First Edition.
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Table of 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.