From the Book - First edition.
Prologue : the ringmaster-1919
Living down Mr. Disappoint
Fanny's "even-handed" justice
It's not what you know. . .
Battling the fakirs, swindlers, and manufacturers of bad whiskeys
A natural talent to sniff out life's pattern
How to build a new woman's railroad
The genie bean counter and his class publication
Couturiers, cutthroats, and conflict
The spirited Mrs. Chase lands her big fish
Enter stage right Frank Crowninshield-and brogue
From Vanity Fair to mayhem
Back to the business of "fried fish and stewed eels"
How to keep a park bench warm
The high priestess meets her forces of nature
All those flaming "bright young things"
The new and renewed kids in town
Fireflies in the garden paradise
Boom, crash, bang, clatter
But who's to save Vanity Fair?
Answering the distant cry of war
A new house, a new empire.
