{"product_id":"american-castle-one-hundred-years-of-mar-a-lago-hardcover-1","title":"American Castle: One Hundred Years of Mar-A-Lago - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Shanklin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace and its American queen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoments 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 118-room mansion in a conflated Spanish, Portuguese, and Venetian design over a coral reef in hurricane-prone Palm Beach County. They named it Mar-a-Lago--a winter haven where corporate titans, the glitterati, and nobility gathered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But the honeymoon didn't last long. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In?\u003ci\u003eAmerican Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post's divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery. It's 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 estates--including her white elephant, Mar-a-Lago. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing from previously untapped interviews, documents, and recordings, Shanklin follows Mar-a-Lago's evolution as it collides with the Kennedys, the state of Florida, a potential make-over as The Mar-a-Lago Center for Advanced Scholars, Lady Bird Johnson, Richard Nixon, the National Park Service, and--of course--Donald 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 for-profit club, received scandalous dinner guests, turned it into his Winter White House, and watched the FBI raid before holding a home-court presser as the first former president to face criminal charges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How did the Palm Beach hamlet so lacquered in grace and elegance come to find itself rooted in American Castle: One Hundred Years of Mar-a-Lago.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalist \u003cb\u003eMary C. Shanklin \u003c\/b\u003ehas written for the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrlando Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Architectural Record\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. A Pulitzer Prize cofinalist for a series on the Pulse nightclub shootings and winner of journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and more, Shanklin resides in Winter Garden, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45771543412933,"sku":"9781635768961","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/nnZLYDlmqh9781635768961_271660e7-e74d-44e2-a843-615e934a7e04.webp?v=1770482649","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/american-castle-one-hundred-years-of-mar-a-lago-hardcover-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}