The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by Bill Dedman
Recommended by Morgan Housel and Jon Stewart
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
When Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twentyfirstcentury battle over a $300 mi...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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