Ghost of a Chance: A Memoir
Ghost of a Chance: A Memoir by Peter Duchin, Charles Michener
English | December 19th, 2018 | ISBN: 0679414185, 0375751319 | 376 pages | EPUB | 48.69 MB
English | December 19th, 2018 | ISBN: 0679414185, 0375751319 | 376 pages | EPUB | 48.69 MB
Called “a living compendium of a hundred years of social history” by The New York Times Book Review, Peter Duchin has lived through tremendous highs and dismal lows. Orphaned by his glamorous parents, the Newport debutante Marjorie Oelrichs and the famous bandleader Eddy Duchin, he was raised in the privileged, old-money world of Averell Harriman, the diplomat and former governor of New York. He grew up to be one of America’s preeminent bandleaders, effortlessly entertaining and charming partygoers at thousands of society galas, from the White House to Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball.
In Ghost of a Chance, he looks back on a life that another man may not have survived. And as he relates the frank, often surprising recollections of the many friends and famous figures who made up the strange family of his youth, Duchin chronicles the changing face of social life in America.
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