Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

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When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Emp…