The Gods of Newport

The Gods of Newport by Jakes, John. Mass Market Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780451222343.

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of North and South, “the best historical novelist of our time” (Patricia Cornwell). In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul and robber baron Sam Driver. He wants his beautiful daughter to have the best Newport has to offer-even if that means breaking all the rules...