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Bestselling author Laurence Leamer spent the winter season in Palm Beach for over a decade, witnessing from his front row seat the inner workings of this exclusive enclave. In Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, Leamer takes readers inside the parties and the clubs, behind the doors of the toniest addresses and into the scandals and the tragedies of some of the wealthiest families in the country. He captures the clash between old money and new, religion and status, and the love, lust, and fatal hatreds that determine the shape of that fiercely protected society.
Madness Under The Royal Palms has generated a firestorm of controversy including supposed threats against Leamer’s life and confrontations on the streets of Palm Beach recorded by a news camera
Leamer has put the whole matter in context most notably in a lengthy interview for WGBH Public Television in Boston
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