Author: Rubin, Nancy,
Title: American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Description: NY, Villard, (1995). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Her father was C. W. Post, the breakfast-food magnate. Her four husbands included the broker E. E. Hutton and Joseph Davies. U.S. Ambassasdor to Stalin's Soviet Union. Her circle of friends ran the gamut from Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke to the duke and duchess of Windsor, her niece by marriage was poor little rich girl Barbara Hutton, and her youngest daughter is the film actress Dina Merrill. Rubin chronicles nine decades of American history as lived and influenced by one of this country's most dazzling formidable women. In 1891 brought to Battle Creek, Michigan, by her parents who had traveled there in desperate search of a cure for Post's nervous and physical ailments. At Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's celebrated sanitarium they found a cure and inspiration to help create a fortune.

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