American Castle: One Hundred Years Of Maralago,Used

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The unvarnished history of Americas most notorious palace and its American queenMoments before the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E.F. Hutton constructed an estate to outdo all estates. To the tune of $4 million (about $68 million today) and four years of labor they called forth a 118room mansion in a conflated Spanish, Portuguese, and Venetian design over a coral reef in hurricaneprone Palm Beach County. They named it MaraLagoa winter haven where corporate titans, the glitterati, and nobility gathered.But the honeymoon didnt last long.InAmerican Castle, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the superrich and powerful after MaraLago became a parttime residence and party place upon Posts divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery. Its a story of an American royal who, at the age of 27, inherited a cereal company that would later become the General Foods Corporation and spent a lifetime in business, art collection, philanthropy, and the management of multiple estatesincluding her white elephant, MaraLago. Though she tried time again, as Shanklin covers in riveting detail, Post could not offload the behemoth due to its extraordinary maintenance costs and the uppity Palm Beach neighbors.Drawing from previously untapped interviews, documents, and recordings, Shanklin follows MaraLagos evolution as it collides with the Kennedys, the state of Florida, a potential makeover as The MaraLago Center for Advanced Scholars, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, the National Park Service, andof courseDonald Trump, who pursued subdivision, threatened to sell to Reverend Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church, hosted Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, made it a forprofit club, received scandalous dinner guests, turned it into his Winter White House, and watched the FBI raid before holding a homecourt presser as the first former president to face criminal charges.How did the Palm Beach hamlet so lacquered in grace and elegance come to find itself rooted in American Castle: One Hundred Years of MaraLago.

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