Pirate's Gold - Andrew Coe

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Résumé :
Pirate's Gold is story of a great American fortune, a man with the Midas touch, and his descendants who inherited more money than was good for them. A small-town boy from Massachusetts, Henry Huttleston Hell-Hound Rogers helped build Standard Oil into the world's largest oil company, gaining renown as a notorious Wall Street pirate. After he died, his children inherited dollars49,000,000--billions in today's money. None of his descendants lived so large as Rogers' son, Colonel Henry Rogers Jr., and his two children, Millicent and Harry. During the 1920s, the public was fascinated by the saga of Millicent's ill-fated marriage to Count Salm, the Austrian tennis champion with matinee idol good looks. In the 1930s Harry's involvement in the death of an actress at a drunken party was front page news in every city in the country. Pirate's Gold looks beneath the headlines to uncover the roots of these stories: the struggles over money and love, and the difficulties of living up to one's famous family name.

Biographie:
Andrew Coe is a writer and independent scholar. He and his wife, Jane Ziegelman, are co-authors of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, which won a James Beard award. His Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States was a finalist for a James Beard award and named one of the best food books of the year by the Financial Times. He has appeared in documentaries such as the National Geographic Channel's Eat: The Story of Food and The Search for General Tso. He is a direct descendant of Henry Huttleston Rogers.