Jakes, John  <br/><br/>
Gods of Newport  
 The gods of Newport  
John Jakes. 
 - New York :  Signet,  [2007], c2006. 
 - xi, 462 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780451222343 (pbk.) 0451222342 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Upper class
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Newport (R.I.)<br/>United States--Social life and customs--19th century
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<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Jak   2