A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

About this book

From the front flap of this 190 page book: "A Wonderful Time captures magnificently the life of Americas elite from coast to coast in Bermuda the Caribbean and Acapulco. Drawing from thousands of pictures taken since World War II on assignments for Holiday Town & Country Harpers Bazaar Life. Vogue Travel & Leisure and other publications Slim Aarons has put together the best of them - many never published before - with a narrative of his experiences and impressions while photographing American aristocrats on their estates and at play at their favorite resorts. Here are the Cushings of Newport The Fords of Grosse Pointe and the Rockefellers of New York; here are the kings and queens of Beverly Hills playing croquet the Cabots sailing off Bostons North Shore and Barry Goldwarer on the range in Arizona. Here are the Whitneys entertaining on Long Island the Armours in their pool in Lake Forest the Klebergs on their Texas ranch. and the scions of Palm Beach San Francisco and New York having a wonderful time." And from the rear cover: "A Wonderful Time is a book about Snowmass Tom Watson Nonie Phipps Harold Vanderbilt CeeZee Guest Commander Whitehead Lilly Pulitzer New Orleans T.S. Eloit Jamaica Minnie Cushing Washington Damon Gadd Mrs. Atwater Kent the Rockefellers The King Ranch Merle Oberon Sugarbush Cecil Beaton Scottsdale Brenda Frazier Baltimore Angie Duke Palm Beach Eva Gabor Acapulco Burl Ives the Duchess of Windsor La Jolla Peter Widener Babe Paley Nassau Roger Lion Gardiner Mary Hemingway Stowe Mike Phipps Baileys Beach Gloria Guinness The Exumas Herb Caen Romanoffs Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jock Whitney The Bath and Tennis Club Mary Martin Aspen Truman Capote Hobe Sound Cobina Wright Howard Hughes The Waldorf Fleur Cowles Peter Pulitzer The Myopia Hunt Club Dolly Fritz and a lot of other people having a wonderful time."