The Book ClassThe book class was started by twelve manhattan debutantes in 1908. Over an elegant lunch they would meet to discuss a selected title, a custom they upheld monthly for over sixty years. They were intelligent and diverse women, wives and daughters of wealthy and powerful men, who themselves ran New York society. Without betraying their proper upbringing and perfect manners, their lives unfold, revealing intimate moments of turmoil far greater than anything they ever read about. --Book jacket. |
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