Charlotte Hays

Avery sad assessment of how far our society has fallen. A world lacking in manners, beliefs, and most importantly common sense. Oh and it is a rather funny book. you will notice it is not POOR WHITE TRASH. Income plays no part in the depths of trash behavior of a person.
Warning if you have children and they have a stupidly spelled name or the name of a stripper, if the care about the Kardashian's, if you think everything children do is precious and that their opinions are important, if you would never stop and think twice about taking your children to an expensive restaurant, on a14 hour plane ride, and bring them on your. Vacation to Tahiti or the. Maldives, if any of these descriptions describe you, YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS BOOK NOR WILL YOU THINK IT IS FUNNY IN ANY WAY.… (altro)

This was a very dishy, interesting, if uneven, book about a very unique and enterprising breed of women: fortune hunters. Those who make a career and a financial empire by marrying very wealthy men. Some of these women were revelations for me (Carol McDonald Portago Carey-Hughes Pistell Petrie). Some of them were reminders (Pamela Churchill Haywood Harriman). Some of them I would disagree should be categorized as Fortune Hunters (Princess Diana, Duchess of Windsor, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy...they may have married wealthy men, but they were not as calculated, almost militaristic as some of others like Petrie and Harriman. I would merely classify these three women who married the most eligible Princes in the world: the last two Prince of Wales and the Prince of America himself: JFK as "women who married well." None of these ladies had more than one husband, a distinct difference from the formidable ladies in this book.) This book is a very fun read. I love women who demonstrate strength, in whatever fashion. After all men have been doing that nobly for since the fall of the Goddess and this book certainly is a revelation.… (altro)