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No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.
About the Author
Rachel Dickinson writes about travel, history, bits of science, and anything else that interests her from her home in perpetually cloudy Upstate New York. Her current book took her to the wilds of Southern Indiana to research THE NOTORIOUS RENO GANG, an account of the world's first train robbers. Her previous book was the narrative nonfiction work FALCONER ON THE EDGE, where she followed a hardcore falconer through a hunting season in Wyoming. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and a geology degree from Kirkland College. She writes one haiku a day, which can be found at http://thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com
