Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess

Meryl Gordon
4.01/5 (181 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
A deeply researched biography of the socialite, political hostess, activist and United States envoy to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, from New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon.

Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In her heyday, this wealthy globe-trotting Washington widow was one of the most famous women in America, garnering as much media attention as Eleanor Roosevelt. Renowned for her world-class parties featuring politicians and celebrities, she was very close to three presidents–Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. Truman named her as the first female envoy to Luxembourg, which inspired the hit musical based on Perle’s life – “Call Me Madam” – which starred Ethel Merman, ran on Broadway for two years and later became a movie. A pioneering supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, she was a prodigious Democratic fundraiser and rescued Harry Truman’s financially flailing 1948 campaign.

In this intensely researched biography, author Meryl Gordon chronicles Perle’s lavish life and society adventures in Newport, Manhattan and Washington, while highlighting her important, but nearly forgotten contribution to American politics and the feminist movement.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1538751240
ISBN13:
9781538751244
kindle Asin:
B0CW19LPLZ

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess

Meryl Gordon
4.01/5 (181 ratings)
Read Download
A deeply researched biography of the socialite, political hostess, activist and United States envoy to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta, from New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon.

Perle Mesta was a force to be reckoned with. In her heyday, this wealthy globe-trotting Washington widow was one of the most famous women in America, garnering as much media attention as Eleanor Roosevelt. Renowned for her world-class parties featuring politicians and celebrities, she was very close to three presidents–Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson. Truman named her as the first female envoy to Luxembourg, which inspired the hit musical based on Perle’s life – “Call Me Madam” – which starred Ethel Merman, ran on Broadway for two years and later became a movie. A pioneering supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, she was a prodigious Democratic fundraiser and rescued Harry Truman’s financially flailing 1948 campaign.

In this intensely researched biography, author Meryl Gordon chronicles Perle’s lavish life and society adventures in Newport, Manhattan and Washington, while highlighting her important, but nearly forgotten contribution to American politics and the feminist movement.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1538751240
ISBN13:
9781538751244
kindle Asin:
B0CW19LPLZ

More Books

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

Susan Morrison

The Queens of Crime

Marie Benedict

When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

Graydon Carter

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

Nicola Clark

The Stolen Queen

Fiona Davis

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Sonia Purnell

Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches

Tim Matheson

Carson the Magnificent: An Intimate Portrait

Bill Zehme

One Good Thing

Georgia Hunter

The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds

Jennifer Moorman

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown

33 Place Brugmann

Alice Austen