The name on her gravestone is Frances Seymour Fonda and it is carved into a modest marker in Ogdensburg Cemetery, a quiet burial ground in a working-class city on the St. Lawrence River, about as far from Hollywood as a person can be buried while remaining in New York State. There is…
She transformed what America served at the official table. What she did at her own table is almost entirely unknown. That gap between the exquisite public food and the private eating is one of the most characteristic facts about Jacqueline Kennedy and it has been almost entirely overlooked in the decades of…
The ceremony had been rehearsed for 6 weeks, every footstep mapped, every pause calculated, every handshake timed to the second. Buckingham Palace had planned the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe with a kind of precision that only a monarchy built on centuries of protocol could achieve. 2,000 guests, 43 nations represented,…
July 29th, 1981. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. 11:17 a.m. 750 million people were watching. They pressed against metal barriers lining the streets of London, waving paper flags, straining for a glimpse of the ivory silk dress that had become the most talked about garment in modern history. They wept openly, these strangers,…
On a gray afternoon in June of 1963, the president of the United States slipped away from his motorcade during what would be his final international trip. His Secret Service detail had not been briefed. The detour was not on the official schedule. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was driven through the iron gates…
okay so everyone talks about the popular Fifth Avenue as the only Millionaire’s Row in Manhattan everyone talks of its glitzy past and its lost Mansions but it seems we forgot about one other Avenue welcome to schmann C the place where we talk all things Rich exclusive and fancy schmancy Once…
Perched on a steep hill in Boston, is one of those neighborhoods that looks like it was designed specifically to make modern life feel a little too loud, too fast, and not nearly well-bred enough. We’re not just talking about a pretty historic neighborhood. We’re talking about a playground for Boston’s elite,…
When you picture a 20th century dictator, you probably see the same template. A coup or a civil war to take power, a wave of purges to keep it, a cult of personality, a Swiss bank account, a palace with a goldplated everything, and an escape plan for the day it all…
In Nazi propaganda, she was the perfect mother, the first lady of the Reich, six beautiful blonde children, a household held up to the German public as the model of Aryan family life. On the night of May 1st, 1945, she murdered all six of them in Hitler’s bunker. But the horror…
Almost every prominent Nazi woman after 1945 told the same story. They’d been apolitical. They’d been kept in the dark. They’d loved a man, not a regime. But one of them, arguably the most decorated of them all, refused to play along. Hannah Reich flew Hitler’s experimental rocket plane, pitched him on…
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