{"product_id":"embers-of-childhood-flora-miller-biddle-9781948924009","title":"Embers of Childhood: Growing Up a Whitney","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue-blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world. \u003cbr\u003eBut money itself is not the source of happiness. Glimpses into the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her great-grandparents and the yearly production of traveling from her childhood home on Long Island to their summer home in Aiken, South Carolina, are measured against memoires of strict governesses with stricter rules in a childhood separate from her parents, despite being in the same house, and the ever-present pressure to measure up in her studies and lessons. As Flora steps back in time to trace the origins of her family's fortune and where it stands today, she takes a discerning look at how wealth and excess shaped her life, for better and for worse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this wonderfully evocative memoir, Flora Miller Biddle examines, critiques, and pays homage to the people and places of her childhood that shaped her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flora Miller Biddle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948924005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948924009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019 pg. 125","brand":"Flora Miller Biddle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43940350263551,"sku":"9781948924009","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c7042e5f-db01-435d-b76f-4317ccc02349.jpg?v=1681446689","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/embers-of-childhood-flora-miller-biddle-9781948924009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}