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The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh: The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters

by David Grafton · 1992 · 316 pages

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Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, and Minnie Astor Fosburgh—if they weren't real people, Dominick Dunne would have invented them. The glamorous, tragic, and shocking story of the beautiful people's most glittering doyennes. 16-page photo insert.

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Subject
biographyhistory
Setting
20th centuryUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 316 pages

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