Michael Gross is the author of the New York Times bestsellers House of Outrageous Fortune, 740 Park, and Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, as well as Rogues' Gallery, and Unreal Estate. A contributing editor of Departures, he created the blog Gripepad and has written for The New York Times, New York, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, and many other publications.
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"Michael Gross's HOUSE OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE is a book about a
building the way MOBY DICK is a book about a fish. History,
real-estate wheeling and dealing, the economics of the buccaneer
class, the arcane realpolitik of condos and co-ops, even
floor-plans: it's all here. If you want to find out why Manhattan's
skyline looks the way it currently does, this is the book to
read."----Amanda Vaill "author of Hotel Florida and Everybody Was
So Young"
"House of Outrageous Fortune pulls back the limestone curtain of 15
Central Park West to reveal seismic shifts in New York society and
the astonishing lifestyle-without-limits of the new global elite.
It's a dishy--but not trashy--page-turner."--Barbara Corcoran,
founder of the Corcoran Group and star of ABC's Shark Tank
"Want to understand what Occupy Wall Street was about? In House of
Outrageous Fortune, Michael Gross explains it--and then some. With
a rollicking, informative history of New York City, tales of mega
real estate fortunes made and lost, and dizzying examples of the
super-wealthy's greed and ostentation, Gross deftly traces the arc
of America both socially and financially and proves that the top
two percent most certainly do not live like you or I."--Dana Thomas
"author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster"
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