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  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • It was during the Gilded Age that the Folger family began acquiring first folios of Shakespeare's plays and the Mellons, Fricks and Carnegies began to fill their mansions with furniture and paintings from the cash-starved great houses of England.

    Brass Beds and Broomsticks Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Our cultural trend-setters today are no longer the Carnegies, the Astors, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Vanderbilts, and the Fricks, but popular celebrities who generally have more money than taste.

    Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King Joan Z. Shore 2010

  • Before grappling with the all-important advent of radio, television and film, he treats us to a discussion of how the gossip columns of mass - circulation newspapers played with the dialectics of attraction and repulsion, knowability and distance in the lives of the Gilded Age's newly rich, whether Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Astors, Morgans, Hearsts or Fricks.

    Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote 2010

  • Recently, the Fricks treated the Pernells to a 10-day cruise.

    Bob Frick by the numbers 2008

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