Loveliest Woman in America

<p>Her name was Rosamond Pinchot: hailed as The Loveliest Woman in America she was a niece of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; cousin to Edie Sedgwick; half sister of Mary Pinchot Meyer JFK's lover; friend to Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth Arden. At nineteen she was discovered aboard a cruise ship at twenty-three she married the playboy scion of a political Boston family but by thirty-three she was dead by her own hand. </p><p>Seventy years later her granddaughter a noted landscape architect received Rosamond's diaries and embarked on a search to discover the real Rosamond Pinchot.</p><p>Unearthing what appeared to be a glamorous fairy-tale existence Bibi Gaston discovers the roots of the ties that bind and break a family and uncovers the legacy of two great American dynasties torn apart by her grandmother's untimely death. This is a tale of three lives and five generations mothers and grandmothers longing holding on and letting go men beauty diets and letting beauty slip. This is the story of how we make the most of our brief beautiful lives.</p>