{"product_id":"9781586671068","title":"The Grandeur of the Dooms: Sacred and Profane Adventures of a Modern American among the English and European Aristocracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTravel with Luke Randolph as he meets the wackiest and most uninhibited collection of characters ever to cut a swath through the exclusive clubs and ancestral homes of the English and European upper classes. Here is a thoroughly modern, sometimes madcap, sometimes serious perspective on the social worlds of thoroughbred racing, bobsledding, foxhunting, and boar stalking, and a lifestyle that, though waning, continues to fascinate us. Grandeur of the Dooms transports the reader from the creamy shade of Buck's tent at Ascot to the search for a dissolute and dangerous Mexican jockey in a Texas border town; to St. Moritz, Switzerland, where suicidal young bloods run the Cresta on bobsleds; and to Vienna, where a young American triumphs against a five hundred pound boar with hatred and bloodlust in its eyes, only to discover that worse demons are yet to be faced. Here is a world where firelight reflects off polished brass, the Viennese snow squeaks underfoot, and skeet is shot in the drawing room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Derrydale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036521480432,"sku":"9781586671068","price":29.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781586671068_p0.jpg?v=1769900934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781586671068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}