Author: jannyscott

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay…like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh.”—The New YorkerA parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an … degree to which an inheritance—financial, cultural, genetic—conspired in one person’s self-destruction.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. There was an…