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Gilded: How Newport Became America's Richest Resort Format:Paperback visit the Literary Knits patternA beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super rich. Many of the country's most famous blueblood families, the closest thing America has to royalty, have lived and summered in Newport since the nineteenth century. The Astors, the Vanderbilts, Edith Wharton, JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy