The Queen of Versailles
An American Allegory
- “If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times (on The Queen of Versailles)
- “(The Queen of Versailles is) perhaps the single best film on the Great Recession,” - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
- “A real-estate portrait that… emerges as a metaphor for the American Dream itself.” — The New Yorker
- “The loss of grotesque wealth has never been so entertaining – or weirdly moving.” — The Guardian
A century after Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald mapped the American Dream’s promise and peril, Lauren Greenfield’s latest photographic monograph, The Queen of Versailles: An American Allegory, arrives in bookstores to visually recapture the origin story behind her hit 2012 documentary film and the 2025 Broadway musical—collectively transforming a documentary mirror onto the national stage, where wealth, overreach, and reality-TV culture converge in one distinctly American aria. Named by The New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy,” and the best-selling author of four award-winning monographs that incisively deconstruct turn-of-the-century America (Fast Forward, Girl Culture, Thin, Generation Wealth), Greenfield now presents The Queen of Versailles: An American Allegory—the first publication of the complete photographic series from the iconic documentary, featuring essays by Greenfield and longtime collaborator and curator Trudy Wilner-Stack.
- Publisher
- Lannoo Publishers
- ISBN
- 9789059964518
- Publish date
- 5th May 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- USA & Canada
- Size
- 9.25 in x 12.2 in
- Pages
- 256 Pages
- Illustrations
- 180 color, 50 b&w
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