The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age

``In the felicitous style of his many novels and other nonfiction titles, Auchincloss examines the lives of New York's `acceptable' families, the privileged wealthy, in the period 1880-1920. His close connections to their descendants--and his wide reading--inform these lively anecdotal histories,'' stated PW. Illustrated. (June)