Summary
"A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in... Full description
- President Kennedy has a request
- Fifty summers later
- The auction of the decade
- Childhood treasures: a bottle and a book
- The making of a young gardener
- Tally-ho in Virginia
- The debutante dances through the Depression
- A courteous girl and a thorough gentleman
- Paul Mellon's rebellion
- The war years
- Millions of reasons to remarry
- The best-dressed list
- A constant gardener
- The best friends
- A rose by any other name
- November 22, 1963
- Carrying on
- 1968
- Paul and Bunny in love
- with others
- The spending of a robber baron fortune
- The book stops here
- Entertaining the royals (again)
- Exits and entrances
- Enduring the unendurable
- A perilous political affair
- The FBI makes house calls
- Everything should be noticed.