The W.A. Clark and his family were peers, in wealth and social status, of the Rockefeller and Carnegies, but over time their legacy and names had been all but erased from the American collective memory. Bill Dedman, looking at interesting real estate, stumbles across an interesting listing in Connecticut owned by W.A.'s daughter Huguette. He and a distant relative of Huguette skillfully tell an engaging tale of an American fortune intertwined with the history of America, stretching both coasts and nearly 200 hundred years. This book had me turning pages rapidly an instantly. Anyone who loves art, architecture or American history will find this to be a good read.