Though I liked the book, I made the decision at the time I finished not to review it on my site. Maybe in the future I will include it in a book list post or another article.

It's okay. The only reason I'm still writing is because netgalley demands a 'review must also be at least 50 characters long, or include a link to your review online.'

In the mid- 1970s, I lived across Whitehaven Street (in D.C.) from Paul and Bunny Mellon. Bunny (I feel so strange calling her by her first name) invited me to Sunday lunch every so often. The walls in the dining room were full-on trompe l'oiel.. Soup was served in covered dishes shaped like little cabbages--more tromp l-oiel. The lunches lasted for hours and, eventually, spilled out into the perfectly manicured garden that somehow looked just a little bit wild.
Bunny was charming, refined and quiet. Paul was charming and gregarious. I was young and thrilled to be in the presence of such illuminati.
Thank you, Meryl Gordon, for providing a such an unvarnished (but tender) picture of Bunny--especially in her later, lonely years when she was so much involved with John Edwards' failed presidential campaign.
An excellent and well-researched book.

A well researched and entertaingly written book telling the story of an amazing and incredible woman who has been lost to the public until now but whose story deserves to be told.