Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland, and Interior DecoratingElliot

By: Elliot Tiber

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Synopsis: *** IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award WINNER (AUDIOBOOK - Nonfiction category) ***Palm Trees on the Hudson is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber&’s bestseller Taking Woodstock. Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan&’s leading interior designers. Then Elliot&’s career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob.In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York&’s rich and famous—politicians, financiers, and even Elliot&’s icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including rented palms, Elliot&’s event turned into financial disaster. Things couldn&’t get any worse—or so it seemed until the Mob paid a visit.By turns comic and tragic, Palm Trees on the Hudson is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.