The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America (John MacRae Books)
Dalzell, Robert F.; Dalzell, Lee Baldwin
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2008
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- Softcover
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- Title
- The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America (John MacRae Books)
- Author
- Dalzell, Robert F.; Dalzell, Lee Baldwin
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805088571
- ISBN 13
- 9780805088571
- Edition
- First Edition.
"The Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very walls and hallways."―Los Angeles Times
One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind―at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected classical taste and a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family's memories and sense of itself.
With memorable skill and insight, the authors take us inside the house and the family to observe how each new generation, often sharply at odds with one another, left its distinctive mark on the place.
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About the Author
Lee Baldwin Dalzell was for many years the head of the Reference Department at the Williams College Library. He collaborated on George Washington’s Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America.
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