![]() ![]() ![]() And with Bunny Mellon, Gordon has another tricky subject, a far more vital and relatable figure than Brooke Astor but still very noticeably a space alien visiting from some kind of parallel dimension.īunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend, beautifully produced by Grand Central Publishing, is as thorough, sympathetic, and engaging a biography of this particular space alien as she's ever likely to get. Astor Regrets, actually giving her more flesh-and-blood believability than she was usually able to simulate in real life. ![]() Journalist Meryl Gordon did a wonderful job of teasing out Brooke Astor's admittedly elusive humanity in Mrs. In life, the two women had quite a bit in common: each was intelligent, each could be generous to friends and tyrannical to staff, each married into staggering wealth (Astor on her third marriage, Mellon on her second), each craved the limelight, each tried stubbornly throughout the decades to be happy in the day-to-day, both adored dogs (Astor dachshunds, Mellon beagles), both had easy access to the top shelves of American political power, and both were glad-handed philanthropists.Īnd even in death, they share at least one crucial thing in common: they're extremely lucky in their biographer. Seven years later, another headline-making, obscenely wealthy American socialite, Bunny Mellon, died at the age of 103. ![]() Astor Regrets, was a ripe old 105 when she died in 2007. Bunny Mellon:The Life of an American Style Legendīrooke Astor, the subject of Meryl Gordon's hugely engaging 2008 book Mrs. ![]()
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