Empty Mansions  -  Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

KORTE INHOUD

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 the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of...
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2013 Uitgever: Ballantine Books, New York 496 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0345534522 ISBN-13: 9780345534521