Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299809567 (1299809561)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
New York
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...
10 years ago
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