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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Stephen Gardner Birmingham was an American author known for his social histories of wealthy American families, often focusing on ethnicity — Jews, African-Americans, Irish, and the Anglo-Dutch. He also wrote several novels, also about wealthy people.
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it.
What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.