MICHAEL GROSS has written for Esquire, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, and countless other publications. Currently a contributing editor at Travel & Leisure, he is also the author of Genuine Authentic and the New York Times bestselling Model. He lives in New York City.
“In 740 Park, Michael Gross penetrates the bewitching and private
worlds of the privileged and very rich denizens of 740 Park Avenue
on New York’s Upper East Side. Gross, a born storyteller, delights
in his tales of upstairs and downstairs over the decades in the
grand building. This is social history at its best.”—Dominick
Dunne
“740 Park is a concrete capsule of American capitalism as seen
through the fates, fortunes, and foibles of its
inhabitants. This biography of New York’s most magisterial
building is an immensely entertaining, dishy, and ultimately
serious book.”—Jane Stanton Hitchcock
“The Lolita of shelter porn . . . 740 Park delves into the rarified
world of one of the city’s most exclusive co-ops, where
billionaires like Ronald Lauder, Steve Schwarzman, and David Koch
rest their heads.”—Michael Calderone, New York Observer
"Jaw-dropping apartment porn."—Fortune
"Gobs of real-estate porn."—The New York Times Book Review
"[A] great read . . . gossipy . . . revealing."—People
"As rich as his subjects."—Forbes FYI
"Life after folly-filled life flashes forward like Park Avenue
canopies viewed from a speeding town car."—The New York
Times
“Finally! A look inside the golden tabernacle of high
society.”—Kitty Kelley
Of all Manhattan's fabled East Side dwellings of the super-rich, 740 Park Avenue has perhaps the best pedigree. Designed by Rosario Candela and developed by James T. Lee, Jackie O's maternal grandfather, as a cooperative haven for the elite, it had the misfortune to open just as the stock market crashed in 1930 and was forced to operate partly as a rental for some decades. The last sale was to Lee himself, for son-in-law "Black Jack" Bouvier, his wife and daughters Jackie and Lee. John D. Rockefeller Jr. signed a rental lease in 1936 for a massive apartment (more than 20,000 square feet), and Marshall Field III took another. Gross (Model) has solidly researched the denizens of the building, who they were, what they did, and who and how many times they married. This information, while exhaustive, is also exhausting. Things perk up as we approach the modern era, and the old rich give way to a newer cast of sometimes dubious billionaires. Ron Perelman, Henry Kravis, Steve Ross and Steve Schwartzman are cited among the newer tenants. A bit of a bore for average readers, this will be a useful tome for those interested in New York's social history. Agent, Dan Strone. (Oct. 18) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
"In 740 Park, Michael Gross penetrates the bewitching and
private worlds of the privileged and very rich denizens of 740 Park
Avenue on New York's Upper East Side. Gross, a born storyteller,
delights in his tales of upstairs and downstairs over the decades
in the grand building. This is social history at its
best."-Dominick Dunne
"740 Park is a concrete capsule of American capitalism as seen
through the fates, fortunes, and foibles of its inhabitants. This
biography of New York's most magisterial building is an immensely
entertaining, dishy, and ultimately serious book."-Jane Stanton
Hitchcock
"The Lolita of shelter porn . . . 740 Park delves
into the rarified world of one of the city's most exclusive co-ops,
where billionaires like Ronald Lauder, Steve Schwarzman, and David
Koch rest their heads."-Michael Calderone, New York
Observer
"Jaw-dropping apartment porn."-Fortune
"Gobs of real-estate porn."-The New York Times Book
Review
"[A] great read . . . gossipy . . .
revealing."-People
"As rich as his subjects."-Forbes FYI
"Life after folly-filled life flashes forward like Park
Avenue canopies viewed from a speeding town car."-The
New York Times
"Finally! A look inside the golden tabernacle of high
society."-Kitty Kelley
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