Upon rereading, this book ran dry. There were too many twee paragraphs about "papa-in-law" and the like that grated on me because they felt like bland generalizations. Not enough about the people just a few recurring characters here and there that feel like cutouts without depth. Authors ought to have just picked a few and written a full collective biography, with a few Buccaneers and American Princesses and the other categories they created.

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First Reading:
This read like a fun tour guide of the so called "Buccaneers" with some asides and offset sections to break up the novel with many pictures. The little sections got a little annoying because they didn't talk about much, escpecially towards the end. The best ones dealt with the father and Newport. I can't say all of the ladies were interesting. Some of them were quite boring but a majority, especially the Jeromes, Astors, and Consuelo were extremely fun to read about