After the Ball by Patricia Beard

After the Ball

Patricia Beard

416 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography economics history informative medium-paced
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Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and nai ve -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of soci...

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