House of Dreams; The Bingham Family of Louisville
New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 452, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Author's Note. Index. Lengthy, dated inscription to journalist Matt Schaeffer of WBCN Radio Boston by the author on the fep along with handwritten thank you note for the interview laid in. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Marie Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. She was the first female baseball columnist covering the American League, traveling with the Boston Red Sox for the Boston Herald during the 1979 season. The inside story of the tragic collapse of the Binghams of Louisville and the bitter family quarrel that led to the loss of their journalistic empire. “House of Dreams” chronicles the rise and fall of the Bingham family media empire in Kentucky. The patriarch of the family, Judge Bingham, married three times, with his final being to Mary Lily Kenan, who was the widow of Henry Flagler, the standard oil magnate and resort developer in Florida. She died under very mysterious circumstances shortly after her Bingham marriage and left a hand-written codicil to her will so that the family would receive $5 million in 1917. Bingham used the money to purchase the Louisville’s Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. Utilizing the power of the press they now controlled, the Binghams launched themselves into society with Judge Bingham getting appointed US Ambassador to the Court of St. James (he was succeeded by Joseph Kennedy), Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Journalism, Louisville, Judge Bingham, Inheritance, Newspapers, Scandal, Barry Bingham, Wealth, Dysfunctional Families
ISBN: 0394558316
[Book #76839]
Price: $65.00