The Rich Are Different: A Priceless Treasury of Quotations and Anecdotes About the Affluent, the Posh, a nd the Just Plain Loaded

"The very rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. How different? Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them. Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.
These are just some of the hilariously outrageous facts and anecdotes that Jon Winokur, editor of the best-selling Portable Curmudgeon, has assembled in this eye-popping field guide to the habits of the equestrian class. Here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis and Doris Duke, along with the observations of eminent plutologists from Edith Wharton to Liz Smith. You'll learn how the super-rich get, conserve, and squander their fortunes; how they thwart tax collectors, buy legislative bodies (not to mention entire countries), and literally get away with murder.