Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Paternal Pride and Future Hope

2 The Only Real Place on Earth

3 Life Lessons at Hobcaw

4 A Study in Determination

5 From Debutante to the World Stage

6 Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism

7 Resolution and Independence

8 Lois Massey

9 Travels with Edith Bolling Wilson

10 An Awakening

11 La Belle Équitation

12 Success and Romance at Home and Abroad

13 Triumphs with Souriant and Rumors of War

14 European Friends and a Fleeting Betrothal

15 Bargaining for Bellefield

16 Lois Massey and Prewar Europe

17 Varvara Hasselbalch’s American Sojourn

18 Life Stateside and War Abroad

19 Personal and National Turmoil in 1941

20 U-Boats and Spies along the Carolina Coast

21 Dickie Leyland at Hobcaw Barony

22 FDR’s Visit to South Carolina

23 War’s End and the End of an Era

24 Winds of Change in Postwar America

25 Philanthropy and Ecology

26 From Constable to Baroness

27 Paul Dollfus and Frances Milam

28 The Passing of Jean Darthez and Souriant III

29 Into the Twilight

Epilogue

Appendix: Hobcaw Barony Today

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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