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Bezig met laden... Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadudoor Les Standiford
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) MrDickie | Nov 21, 2023 |  The story behind Flagler and his development of Palm Beach along with Marjorie Post and her excesses of the lavish lifestyle is quite a story. The plight of the wealthy when what they build becomes so expensive to maintain the no one wants to deal with it. Trump despite all his criticism did seem to have the perfect solution to keep the property intact with the memberships. Had he not stepped it quite likely would have been demolished and the land subdivided, a real shame. ( ) knightlight777 | Aug 9, 2020 |  Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. ) deldevries | Feb 19, 2020 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.This was an outstanding experience enjoying the writing of Les Standiford narrated skillfully by John McLain. I have a special interest as I live a few miles directly west of Mar-A-Lago and have always been fascinated with the property. I've been by it countless times over the years, but, of course, never rich or important enough to have been inside. Being an avid supporter of the current owner, our great President, Donald Trump, I was interested in learning the history of Palm Beach and Mar-A-Lago, specifically. Recently, out-of-state relatives visited and we had occasion to show them the many mansions along Ocean Bv. in Palm Beach, starting appropriately with Mar-A-Lago, and I was able to share tidbits of information on the Southern White House that I learned from Standiford's wonderful book. The story of Marjorie Merriweather Post and Henry Flagler was especially intriguing and I really enjoyed learning so much about Flagler that I had never heard of before, especially his amazing business acumen, and surprisingly all the drama and tribulations in his personal life. Standiford has brought these historic characters to life, blood, sweat and tears with the help of McLain's smooth narration. If you have any interest in the early days of Palm Beach and/or the tremendous impact Henry Flagler had on Florida generally, and Palm Beach and/or Mar-A-Lago specifically, you will consider your time well spent listening to this captivating audio book. (  ) MikeBruscellSr | Feb 9, 2020 | Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Standiford starts this story with Henry Flagler, the Standard Oil baron who, upon retirement, decided to spend his twilight years developing Florida. Flagler built the railroad that opened south Florida to development and took special interest in developing Palm Beach, building both the Royal Poinciana and the Breakers Hotels. Later, after World War I Flagler was joined by Paris Singer in developing properties for the rich. One of the richest was Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heiress to the Post cereal fortune and married to EH Hutton, owner of the famous brokerage firm who built Mar-A-Lago and reigned as the queen of Palm Beach society into the 1960's. Mrs. Post wanted to leave Mar-A-Lago to the US government for use as a national park or a winter residence for US Presidents or foreign dignitaries.. However, the cost of maintaining the large estate, plus the conditions imposed by the Palm Beach civic government, made this impossible. Enter Donald Trump who purchased the property via a complex multi-bank transaction that seems to be the way he operated in all his business dealings. During his financial troubles in the 1990's Trump turned Mar-A-Lago into a private club in order to finance its annual multi-million dollar maintenance expense, and here it remains to this day. This is an eminently readable history of South Florida. (  ) etxgardener | Jan 16, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, within less than a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the legendary Breakersâ??instantly establishing the island as the preferred destination for those who could afford it. Over the next 125 years, Palm Beach has become synonymous with exclusivityâ??especially its most famous residence, "Mar-a-Lago." As Les Standiford relates, "the high walls of Mar-a-Lago and other manses like it were seemingly designed to contain scandal within as much as keep intruders out." With the authority and narrative prose style that has gained Standiford's work widespread acclaim, Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu tells the history of this fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous protagonists. Flagler's own marriages to Ida Alice Shourds and Mary Lily Kenan perhaps initiated the dramas to come. While sewing machine heir Paris Singer and architect Addison Mizner created the "Mediterranean look" of Palm Beach in the 1910s, inspiring the building of such modern day palaces as Eva and Ed Stotesbury's "El Mirasol," the centerpiece of Palm Beach became the fever dream of Marjorie Merriweather Post and her equally wealthy husband E. F. Hutton, for whom Ziegfeld Follies designer Joseph Urban built "Mar-a-Lago" in 1927. Marjorie "ruled" social Palm Beach through two other marriages and for years on her own until her death in 1973. The fate of her mansion threatened to tear apart the very fabric of the town until Donald Trump acquired it in 1985. Les Standiford brings alive a fabled place and the charactersâ??the rich, famous and infamous alikeâ??who have been drawn inexorably Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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