Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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Book Overview
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0345534522
ISBN13:9780345534521
Release Date:September 2013
Publisher:Ballantine Books
Length:496 Pages
Weight:2.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Empty Mantions
Published by Rita Rivera , 2 years ago
Horrible and boring. Not exactly a good book to read on the rich.
Not a rags to riches story
Published by Jerry K , 2 years ago
On the cover of Empty Mansions, The NY Times is quoted as calling this book, “…an outsized tale of rags to riches prosperity.” However the book is subtitled The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark. Apart from telling of her father’s rags to riches story, the book is not. Huguette was born into riches, and the mystery isn’t about her rise to riches, which didn’t happen, or an empty mansion, which was only occupied for 14 years. It’s well written, but it is not what the Times called it.
Incredible true story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 6 years ago
I found this book fascinating in a "truth is stranger than fiction" sort of way. I was captivated all the way through.
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