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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune Reviews Borrow By Bill Dedman. From Ballantine Books.  (42 reviews) Amazon rank #113When Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Bill Dedman noticed a real estate listing for a grand estate in Connecticut that had sat empty for nearly sixty years, he had no idea that he was stumbling onto one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, backdoor politics, and a reclusive 104-year-old heiress. Empty Mansions explores the fascinating life of Huguette Clark, an enigmatic figure who had not been photographed in public since the 1920s. |
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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