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  • What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

    The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    This illustrated Gilded Age etiquette guide offers "proof that sliding around the naughty edges of society can be as informative as it is entertaining." (Alida Becker, The New York Times Books Review)Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jazz Age Cocktails

    History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Roaring Twenties

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series
    How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground”“Roaring Twenties” America boasted famous firsts: women’s right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The privations of the Great War were over, and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Gilded Drowning Pool

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    As a girl in the West, Valentine Mackle dodged quicksand along the rivers of the mining camps, but as Mrs. Roderick W. DeVere of New York's Fifth Avenue, Val is sucked into Society's own quicksand in spring, 1899, when a weekend at a country estate in the Hudson Valley turns deadly. Val's "soul sister" drowns on family property, and the host's best "practical jokes" double as death traps.A Gilded ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Death in a Gilded Frame

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Newport Summer 1899-yachts, balls, and famed artists eager to paint portraits of Society's "Queens."Western silver heiress Val Mackle DeVere (Mrs. Roderick W.) agrees to "sit" for a portrait for her beloved Roddy, only to stumble on a scene of bloody, grisly homicide at an art gallery.Like a figure from Pompeii, the dead Newport gallery manager screams in silence, his hands like claws clutching at ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Murder, Murder, Murder in Gilded Central Park

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val DeVere learns a third young woman's strangled body has been found nearby in New York's Central Park. The victim could be someone like Val's late mother-or her-for the Valentine Mackle DeVere is one generation from the Irish immigrants who now risk their lives toiling in the city that promised a better life.Heartsick, Val joins her ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Fatal Gilded High Note

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    New York's "Diamond Horseshoe" balcony in the Metropolitan Opera House glittered with ladies' jewels in January 1899, and Society seated in private boxes heard Mozart's murder victim sing his song of death-unaware that the sudden death of a "Coal King" in Box 18 will be ruled a homicide.When opera-goers Val and Roddy DeVere are asked to investigate ("on the q.t."), Val finds herself suspected of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Gilded Age Cocktails

    History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series
    A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the “cocktail.”The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Shifting Gears

    Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear–and–girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to American life saw examples of the new technology on Main Street, on the local railway platform, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Gilded Death

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    A formal dinner in palatial, Gilded Age Newport stuns Val DeVere when her closest friend whispers a terrifying rumor. The friend's ultra-rich auntie's fatal heart attack at Mrs. Astor's annual ball last winter was murder.When the aunt's reclusive daughter-and heir-succumbs to "heart failure," Val and husband Roddy probe the deaths to shield their dear friend who is next in line to inherit the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Exposés and Excess

    Muckraking in America, 19 / 2

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series Personal Takes
    From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Exposés and Excess

    Muckraking in America, 19 / 2

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series Personal Takes
    From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Jack London, Enhanced Ebook

    A Writer's Fight for a Better America

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political ... Read more

    $30.59 USD