December 19, 2008 – Books-Palm Beach!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Dec.19, 2008, under Books, Florida History!
My journey through Palm Beach continues. I was going to jump back into fiction with three Lawrence Sanders. After finishing one of his McNally series set in Palm Beach, I was back in non-fiction again. I always thought the McNally series was a throw back to another time in how it depicts the time period Archie Mcnally dwells. Nah, it apparently is how it was and as it it. Like new York City, Palm Beach has a mond set of the past and hardly willing to proceed to the future.
‘The Season’ and ‘Palm Beach Babylon’ both came out in the ’90s and cover the various scandals of the 12 mile stretch strip of land. ‘The Season’ is one person’s account of what he saw and what he was told. The ‘Babylon’ book recounts generous amounts of historical vignettes over a hundred year period. Both are good reads as each has well written perspectives. However, both are bitter-sweet in that so much told is sad with sad wayward people like Addison Mizner, Joe Kennedy, Roxanne Pulitzer and Donald Trump.
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