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The Beneficiary

Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

ISBN-13: 9780399185038

Author(s): Janny Scott

Subjects: Biography, DNB

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Riverhead

Publication Date: 30-04-2020

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£15.99

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About the book

Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime. In this warmly felt tale of an American family's fortunes, journalist Janny Scott excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott.

The Beneficiary

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