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From the author of Madame Restell andGet Well Soon, a biography of Mamie Fish that explores how women used parties and social gatherings to gain power and prestige.

Marion Graves Anthon Fish, known by the nicknames Mamie and The Fun-Maker, threw the most epic parties in American history. This Gilded Age iconbrought it all: lavish decor; A-list invitees; booze; pranks; and large animal guest stars. If you were a member of New York high society in the PeakAge of InnocenceEra, you simplyhadto be on Mamie Fishs guest list. Mamie Fish understood that people didnt just need the formality of prior generations they needed wit and whimsy.

Make no mistake, however: Mamie Fishs story is aboutso much morethan partying. InGlitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time,readers will learn all about how Fish and her friends shaped the line of history, exerting their influence on business, politics, family relationships, and social change through elaborate social gatherings.In a time when women couldnt even own property, let alone run for office, if women wantedanyof the things men got outside the homeglory, money, attention, social networking, leadership rolesthey had to do it by throwing a decadent soiree or chairing a cotillion.

To ensure people would hear and remember what she had to say, Mamie Fish lived her whole life at Volume 10, becoming famous not by playing the part of a saintly helpmeet, but by letting her demanding, bitchy, hilarious, dramatic freak flag fly. It’s time to let modern readers in on the fun, the fabulousness, and the absolute ferocity that is Ms. Stuyvesant Fishand her inimitable legacy.