Friday, October 31, 2014

Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Newell

20Sept. Kindle. Book Club.

Not my sort of thing. At all. Still it kept me reading, if only to see what idiocy and excess this scion of the super-rich could come up with next. This woman, Hugette Clark, operated about as far from the blatant publicity-seeking modus operandi of the Hilton daughters as is imaginable, but the excess is just as excessive.

The author continually catalogues examples of Clark's vast generosity - she gave her nurse millions of dollars - but in the last analysis, it all read to me as attempts to buy loyalty, which, inevitably, produced amazing greed among those same individuals and institutions.

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