Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Paul Clark Newell, Bill Dedman

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

Paul Clark Newell, Bill Dedman

456 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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#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 sixt...

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informative 93%
mysterious 43%
reflective 43%
sad 37%
emotional 12%
adventurous 6%
funny 6%
lighthearted 6%

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medium 25%
fast 6%

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