05690cam a2200877 4500 468414247 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345545565 0345545567 B00CK8CJOU Amazon b39d0fa6-76b3-41f5-8059-73749a0cc466 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 218050 218050 218050 1300437 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dedman, Bill. Empty Mansions [Libby eBook] : The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune. Random House Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biography autobiography. historical non fiction. nineteenth century. american history. cultural history. estate planning. biography books. Social Studies. Social History. huguette clark. new york city. history books. history gifts. Stradivarius. Pennsylvania. 19th Century. 20th Century. True stories. fifth avenue. non fiction. non-fiction. biographies. inheritance. true story. Gilded Age. eccentrics. Biography. Gold rush. heiresses. railroad. New York. culture. society. Recluse. Montana. History. heiress. Wealth. barons. BIOS. art. HTML:<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br /> NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY<br /> Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <ul> <li><b><i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i></b><br /> When Pulitzer Prize<i>–</i>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. <i>Empty Mansions</i> 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 her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money?<br /> Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark's cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world.<br /> Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else.<br /> The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the <i>Titanic</i>.<br /> <i>Empty Mansions</i> reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette's copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, <i>Empty Mansions</i> is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.<b><i><br /></i></b></li> </ul>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. Newell, Paul Clark. https://samples.overdrive.com/empty-mansions?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/empty-mansions?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/empty-mansions?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)