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The beneficiary : fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father / Janny Scott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 278 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594634192
  • 159463419X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 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. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman. For others, such as Helen's son, Robert Montgomery Scott, the impact was more complex. In struggling to understand her father's puzzling end, Scott provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. -- adapted from jacket
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Janny Scott's investment banker great-grandfather built an eight-hundred-acre estate 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 book is an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets.

"Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278).

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. Some beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman. For others, such as Helen's son, Robert Montgomery Scott, the impact was more complex. In struggling to understand her father's puzzling end, Scott provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. -- adapted from jacket

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