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

**\*\*\* IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist (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.

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.

"This hilarious prequel to Tiber's bestseller 'Taking Woodstock' is a 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"--Borders.com. Judy and the free dish Meet the Teichbergs We're not in Bensonhurst anymore! Elliot Tiber, decorator Momma and homos and shrinks, oh my! The judge and the bar Somewhere over the Hudson A toll on the road Back to White Lake.