Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Author: Dedman, Bill ISBN: 9780345534521 Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: 2013 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. D 1602232 Publisher Description: #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 the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle