I think the book was pretty fair and unbiased as possible regarding the subject: Huguette Clark, daughter of "Copper King" W.A. Clark. Extremely wealthy but isolated and private by choice. You can't fault someone for being that private if it's their choice. Ultimately, the problems and controversy s...
When a search for a new home leads to discovering a huge, wildly expensive home which apparently had been owned and maintained but not lived in for decades, a journalist decided to look into the history behind them. What he found was a remarkable woman whose life was one of secrecy and incredible ge...
***So..I spent an enormous amount of time writing a great review((IT WAS!))and SAVED it and now I cannot find my saved review. I'm too angry for re-writing so I am using portions of an update from my blog, Lagniappe Literature. GREAT BOOK! Amazing, unbelievable story!! Bill Dedman, you rocked this o...
Really well researched, beautifully done portrait of an extremely wealthy family and its most eccentric member, Huguette Clark, who lived nearly 105 years. And still didn't spend all of her hundreds of millions of dollars, though she certainly tried.I thoroughly enjoyed the details of her father's r...
In 2009 Bill Dedman noticed an advertisement for the sale of a grand old mansion that had remained well cared for yet unoccupied for nearly 60 years. What Pulitzer Prize winning journalist worth his salt could help but wonder at the story behind that empty and forgotten mansion? Collaborating with...
This is less a review of the book than of Huguette Clark's life. I give her 4 1/2 stars for staying true to her own peculiar self for more than a century. I don't know that this is a great book viewed strictly on literary terms--the writing is purely serviceable and I don't think the organization wo...
The rich are different from you and me. And also quite different from one another. Hugette was not much like her very social father, or quite like her musically-inclined mother. Nor did she have much in common with her half siblings or extensive relations. She wasn't much like anyone else, althou...
Excellent book. Well written unbiased account of the Clark family focusing mainly on the life of Huguette Clark. Although there is a lot of unknowns concerning Huguette what I really appreciated was the author stayed away from the endless speculation and surmising that many non fiction writers rely ...
I have mixed feelings about this book. Some of the Clark family history was pretty interesting, but most of the focus on Huguette's adult life was not so much. I felt a bit sad for this woman, who clearly did not cope with change (or life in general) in a very healthy way. Eventually it felt like...
There is so much info in this book that it is hard to know where to start.At this very moment in time there are two groups of people fighting over Huguette's money. One side is made up of living relatives (a lot of them) and the other side consists of her lawyers, caregivers and charities. The relat...
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