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

by Paul Clark Newell Jr. and Bill Dedman

Book Overview

#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 sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345534530
• ISBN13: 9780345534538
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Empty Mantions

Horrible and boring. Not exactly a good book to read on the rich.

Not a rags to riches story

On the cover of Empty Mansions, The NY Times is quoted as calling this book, “…an outsized tale of rags to riches prosperity.” However the book is subtitled The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark. Apart from telling of her father’s rags to riches story, the book is not. Huguette was born into riches, and the mystery isn’t about her rise to riches, which didn’t happen, or an empty mansion, which was only occupied for 14 years. It’s well written, but it is not what the Times called it.

Incredible true story

I found this book fascinating in a "truth is stranger than fiction" sort of way. I was captivated all the way through.