Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister
Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister
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Society as I Have Found It

Author: Ward McAllister

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/26/2022

Synopsis

Ward McAllister lived in the mid-to-late nineteenth-century USA. This audiobook encompasses his commentary on the parties held by the elite in the USA and Europe during that time.Well-connected and well-traveled, McAllister describes the habits, trends, and wealth of the upper classes of society. As the author testifies, it was a time of transformative, unprecedented extravagance through the emergence of new technology and new prosperity.The locations of the social gatherings which McAllister attended during this time aren’t limited to the USA, but encompass much of Europe as well.

About Ward McAllister

Samuel Ward McAllister (1827–1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of late-nineteenth-century America. He was widely accepted as the authority on which families could be classified as the cream of New York society.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicole Marie on December 19, 2022

A divinely fascinating read! This account of nineteenth century social life as written by the right hand man of the famous Mrs. Astor is everything that I expected: flamboyant, extravagant, and fabulous! Mr. McAllister's attention to detail is extraordinary, and I simply very much enjoyed learning a......more

Goodreads review by Cecily on May 24, 2018

Perfect for research on my Cliff Walk Courtships series.......more

Goodreads review by R.E. on September 03, 2024

There are a few interesting tidbits in this book, but it is not a deep dive into the American culture of the upper class. If you want a more analytical, deep, and interesting look at history of this time period, you might look at "North America" by Anthony Trollope. If you want to know about the bal......more

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