A Well-Behaved Woman

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The New York Times and USA Today best seller “More than a rewriting of history, this is history reimagined from a fresh angle, delivered here with energy, sensitivity, and flair.” ( AudioFile Magazine)  This program includes a bonus interview with the author.   A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times widely enjoyed author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald .  Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built nine mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a leader in the women’s suffrage movement.  In A Well-Behaved Woman, Therese Anne Fowler paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an lasting story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules – and how to break them.    Praise for A Well-Behaved Woman : ” A Well-Behaved Woman is an notable portrait of a strong, fascinating woman who rose above societal convention and even her own expectations to become so much more than anyone might have predicted.” (Christina Baker Kline, New York Times best-selling author of A Piece of the World and Orphan Train ) “Oh how I loved every instant I spent in the world Fowler has recreated here. The story of Alva Vanderbilt is elegantly and emphatically told. Prepare to be enthralled!” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Couple )

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