Cissy Patterson, Fall Flight
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[Cissy Patterson] Gizycka, Eleanor. Fall Flight. First Edition. 1928. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good condition—jacket shows paper loss to corners, minor chipping, and darkening to the spine.
One of the more lively parts of Katherine Graham’s autobiography was her family’s battle with rival publisher Cissy Patterson, the indomitable Washington, D.C. heiress who was the first woman to head a national newspaper. Before that, however, she was last of the dollar princesses. Married to a tyrannical Polish count, she escaped unscathed only by the direct intervention of Czar Nicholas II. In this novel, she goes back to both her married name and that era, writing a potboiler based upon her disastrous early marriage.
“I’m sick of shabby houses and cheap servants, and fussing with bank accounts that don’t come straight. I’m sick of being just beautiful and charming with nothing else to back me up. I want power.”
--Eleanor Gizycka
One of the more lively parts of Katherine Graham’s autobiography was her family’s battle with rival publisher Cissy Patterson, the indomitable Washington, D.C. heiress who was the first woman to head a national newspaper. Before that, however, she was last of the dollar princesses. Married to a tyrannical Polish count, she escaped unscathed only by the direct intervention of Czar Nicholas II. In this novel, she goes back to both her married name and that era, writing a potboiler based upon her disastrous early marriage.
“I’m sick of shabby houses and cheap servants, and fussing with bank accounts that don’t come straight. I’m sick of being just beautiful and charming with nothing else to back me up. I want power.”
--Eleanor Gizycka
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