{"product_id":"the-beneficiary-fortune-misfortune-and-the-story-of-my-father-paperback","title":"The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanny Scott\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 inheritance--financial, cultural, genetic--conspired in one person's self-destruction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLand, 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, and provides an incisive look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome beneficiaries flourished, like Scott's grandmother, Helen Hope Scott, a socialite and celebrated horsewoman said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and Academy Award-winning film \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Story\u003c\/i\u003e. For others, including the author's father, she concludes, the impact was more complex. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing her journalistic talents, light touch, and crystalline prose to this powerful story of a child's search to understand a parent's puzzling end, Scott also raises questions about our new Gilded Age. New fortunes are being amassed, new estates are being born. Does anyone wonder how it will all play out, one hundred years hence?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanny Scott is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a reporter for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e from 1994 to 2009 and was a member of the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e reporting team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Visit JannyScott.com to learn more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739802022136,"sku":"9780399185038","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/vruQuqbW3I9780399185038.webp?v=1780289457","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-beneficiary-fortune-misfortune-and-the-story-of-my-father-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}