Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Martha Frick Symington SangerSeries:RegionalPublish date:2007-12-10Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822943419ISBN-10:822943417UPC:9780822943419Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Historical, Rich & FamousSize:11.58 x 9.48 x 1.42 inchesWeight:5.225Product ID:SC85PTMM9C
Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress
In 1919, at the age of thirty-one, Helen Clay Frick inherited $38 million, becoming the richest single woman in America. These riches, however, came at a price. Helen's tumultuous early life was shaped by her father's infamy as a union strikebreaker and the ensuing attempt on his life, her mother's debilitating depression, and the death of her older sister and newborn brother about a year apart....
Series: Regional
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822943419ISBN-10:822943417UPC:9780822943419Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Historical, Rich & FamousSize:11.58 x 9.48 x 1.42 inchesWeight:5.225Product ID:SC85PTMM9C
Martha Frick Symington Sanger is the author of Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait (1998), which was cited in August 2007 in the Wall Street Journal by Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian as one of the "five best" books detailing the lives and contributions of great philanthropists in America's gilded age. Her second book, The Henry Clay Frick Houses:...
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
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