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Title: Madness Under the Royal Palms
Subtitle: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach
Author: Laurence Leamer
Narrator: Todd McLaren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-02-09
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 72 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
Leave it to Laurence Leamer, the best-selling author known for getting the inside story on his elusive subjects, to take us behind the walls of America's most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege. Here Leamer tells a braided story involving a socialite determined to make it to the top of Palm Beach society, two infamous murders, and a powerful society reporter. As a backdrop, Leamer tells the story of the clash between old money and new, religion and status, and the love, lust, and fatal hatreds that determine the shape of a fiercely protected society. The cast of characters include trophy wives, trophy husbands, purported gigolos, glamorous widows, a pioneering gay couple, a wildly irreverent event planner, a sociopathic multimillionaire, and an elegant society queen. For 100 years, Palm Beach has been a fantasyland nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy.
In the end, Leamer's tale of money, murder, and mad pretension reveals a darker strain. Uncovering that strain, the author writes, "turned into as fascinating, in some cases as shocking, and always as unexpected a journey as I have ever taken."
Critic Reviews:
"Madness offers buckets of heart-warmimg Schadenfreude for all." (The Washington Post)
"The book's highly visual vignettes dominated by divorce, infidelity, excessive drinking and violence produce a depressing picture of sad, angry, insecure and frequently nasty people hiding behind empty smiles, luxury cars and socially invisible servants." - (Publishers Weekly)
