Legacy by Christopher Ogden
The father fled East Prussia to escape the 1880s pogroms and, as a penniless immigrant boy, hawked newspapers on the streets of Chicago. The son, who lives on Philadelphia's Main Line and on a palatial California estate, is a multibillionaire and America's most generous living philanthropist. This is the epic saga of how Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes. Seeping through the century, the story encompasses brutal circulation wars, bookie parlours and racetracks, a lethal presidential vendetta, the glory days of Hollywood and of television, diplomatic drawing rooms, White House intrigues, tangled romances, a tragic suicide, extravagant social climbing, the Royal Family, a fabled art collection and astonishing generosity. Unauthorised but written with access to the Annenberg family and their private papers, "Legacy" is at once a moving story of a family's triumph as well as a cultural history.
Christopher Ogden writes for Time and Fortune and has reported from the White House and State Department. He is the best-selling author of LIFE OF THE PARTY, A BIOGRAPHY OF PAMELA HARRIMAN and MAGGIE: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN POWER.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316853637 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316853631 |
| Title | Legacy |
| Author | Christopher Ogden |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 1999-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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