Empty mansions the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss,...
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Family Tree
- Introduction: House Hunting
- An Apparition
- Time Capsule
- The Clark Mansion, Part One
- The Log Cabin
- The Copper King Mansion
- The U.S. Capitol
- The Clark Mansion, Part Two
- 907 Fifth Avenue, Part One
- 907 Fifth Avenue, Part Two
- Bellosguardo
- Le Beau Château
- Doctors Hospital
- Beth Israel Medical Center
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Surrogate's Courthouse
- Epilogue: The Cricket
- Authors' Note
- List of Illustrations
- Appendix: Siblings of W.A. Clark
- Appendix: Inflation Adjustment.
