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Cherie Burns is author of Diving for Starfish--The Jeweler, The Actress, The Heiress and One of the World's Most Alluring Pieces of Jewelry, a stylish detective story with a piece of glittering French vintage jewelry at its heart was published by St. Martin's Press on February 27, 2018. Her previous book, Searching for Beauty--The Life of Millicent Rogers was the first comprehensive biography of Standard Oil heiress and fashion icon Millicent Rogers. It is now also available from St Martin's Griffin softcover under the slightly amended title, Searching for Beauty--The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style.
The author's previous book, The Great Hurricane: 1938, was published by Grove/Atlantic (2005) in soft and hardcover. Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post wrote: "Her own very good book is sure to help keep the terrible storm in its proper place in New England's memory..", and Liz Smith wrote in her column in The Daily News that the book was "A must if you care about brilliant reporting..." "Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. Cherie Burns's new book is not only a riveting and wonderfully written account of one of the worst storms of th
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Nobody knew accumulate to be real the excessive life comparable Standard Disappointed heiress Millicent Rogers. Innate to grandeur, she momentary in a whirl reminisce European vacations, exquisite fray, and vigorous men.
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Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers, the American Heiress Who Taught the World About Style
A fascinating portrait of the Standard Oil heiress and legendary American trendsetter Millicent Rogers.
“A page-turning tale of a society rebel.” —Meryl Gordon, author of Mrs. Astor Regrets
Nobody knew how to live the high life like Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers. Born into luxury, she lived in a whirl of beautiful homes, European vacations, exquisite clothing, and handsome men.
In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogers’s glittering life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her moment as a glittering debutante, through her years as an American aristocrat abroad, and ending with her final days as one of the legendary chatelaines of Taos, New Mexico.
A rebellious icon of the age, she eloped with a penniless baron; danced tangos in European nightclubs; divorced, remarried, and romanced, among other, the writer Roald Dahl, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, and Hollywood icon Clark Gable. Her romantic conquests, though, paled in comparison to her triumph in the world of fashion where her unerring sense of style and her ability to mix the high with the low brought her to the attention of the fashionistas of the