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Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr. recount the life of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, who lived from 1906 to 2011 and was the daughter of copper baron and senator William A. Clark. Her childhood home at 962 Fifth Avenue was the biggest house in New York City, and she owned paintings by Degas and Renoir and a Stradivarius violin while quietly working as an artist. For her last 20 years she lived in New York hospitals despite owning several homes, and her fortune of more than $300 million drew relatives into a fight over the inheritance. Newell, her cousin, added years of family research to Dedman's reporting, and the book carries more than seventy photographs.
Morgan Housel summed it up as the story of an heiress who withdrew from the world, collected mansions she never visited and spent years in a hospital despite good health, leaving an epic fight over her money when she died at 104.
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