Michael Gross, Author . Broadway $29.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2488-7
For more than a century, the coupling of art with commerce has made New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art the world's most glamorous whore, according to this sprawling history. Gross, a veteran chronicler of the rich and beautiful (Model:...
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Michael Gross. Broadway, $30 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7679-3265-3
Gross (Rogues’ Gallery) offers a cultural history of wealth in his study of the moguls and mafiosi who developed Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and other ritzy neighborhoods of Los Angeles—with a special focus on the houses they built. The aptly named...
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Michael Gross, Author Cliff Street Books $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-017594-8
Journalist Gross, author of Model and a long-time chronicler of baby boom culture, has chosen the form of a group biography of 19 ""quintessential boomers"" to investigate what has made this generation (born, as Gross defines it, between Pearl...
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Michael Gross, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-019904-3
Like his previous book, Model, Gross's new work will undoubtedly be mined for the more gossipy nuggets embedded in his meticulous research and artful prose. This is a shame, because the crackerjack journalist simultaneously tells a compelling...
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Michael Gross, Author . Broadway $26.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-385-51209-1
Of all Manhattan's fabled East Side dwellings of the super-rich, 740 Park Avenue has perhaps the best pedigree. Designed by Rosario Candela and developed by James T. Lee, Jackie O's maternal grandfather, as a cooperative haven for the elite,
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Michael Gross. Atria, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6619-9
The story of New York City wealth is well told through accounts of its most prestigious addresses. As in his last book, 740 Park, Gross takes a building, Fifteen Central Park West, and uses it to describe the face-off between exclusive co-ops and...
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Michael Gross. Atria, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6346-0
Gross (Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women) opens this paradoxically unfocused book with an interesting exegesis on the grandfathers of fashion photography, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. These men practically invented the oeuvre, with...
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