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
- Preface written by New York Times columnist and critic Ginia Bellafante
The complete photographic record of the iconic documentary, where extreme wealth, greed, overreach, and reality-TV culture converge in one distinctly American story told by Lauren Greenfield, named by The New York Times as “America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy”. In the age of the one percent (1%) – those with a net worth of over $30 million – this is a story that will shake-up the national conversation around oligarchy, inequality, and the definition of economic well-being.
A century after Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald mapped the American Dream’s promise and peril, Lauren Greenfield’s latest photographic monograph visually recaptures the origin story behind her hit 2012 critically acclaimed film, named by Vogue as one of the best documentaries of all time. It is published when the issues raised by her work are more critical than ever – and as they have ever been.
- Publisher
- Lannoo Publishers
- ISBN
- 9789059964518
- Publish date
- 10th Nov 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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