I'd Do It Over Again

The life and times of Igor Cassini. The nostalgic, gossipy, wicked story of the rise, fall and rise of America's most celebrated rogue. Igor Cassini, in an autobiography that wonderfully recreates a world only recently lost. The brother of designer Oleg Cassini, Igor was at the center of and created the term "jet set". As "Cholly Knickerbocker" he was Hearst's chief gossip columnist for years. So his memoirs comprise a book about the rich and the famous, cafe society and the beautiful people, his playmates from the forties to the present (1977). His first marriage was to socialite "Bootsie" McDonnell (later Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. Here are the anecdotes of our notable and naughty...tales of vendettas, suicides, affairs, parties, daredevilry, money, drugs, sex and comedy, corruption and fun.