लेखक: John Hazard Forbes

John Hazard Forbes is a Mayflower descendant, an Ivy League graduate, and his branch of the Forbes clan appears in Burke’s Peerage. His mother’s people—the Hazards of Newport, Rhode Island—included a governor, two commodores, and a general at Gettysburg. Forbes’ wife, Christina, is from one of the grand old families of Savannah. Outside his immediate circle, Forbes’ thirty-five year career as an art expert and appraiser gave him unusual entrée into the houses and lives of many rich, long-standing families. Art experts must be observant, and no detail – regardless of how small—can go unnoticed. So along with their artwork, John Hazard Forbes observed the customs, manners, and viewpoints of America’s established elite. Everything in his OLD MONEY AMERICA books is rooted in Forbes’ interactions with some of America’s most remarkable patricians. Having known elites in New York, Pennsylvania, New England, the Mid-west, and the South, he is in a unique position to report on the attitudes and behaviors of our own unique brand of aristocracy.