Richard More was just six years old when his embittered legal – but not biological – father packed him off to the...
Archduke Leopold of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, spent most of his life in exile trying to chase down money — at least...
Rebekah Harkness spent much of the Standard Oil fortune she inherited on the ballet. Not just going to performances, but sponsoring entire...
Lois Long chronicled the escapades of a flapper let loose in New York’s speakeasies and clubs during the infancy of the New...
Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett started the first scandal in Greenwich, Conn., over – what else? – infidelity and real estate. The...
The legendary movie actress Bette Davis called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.” She was born and educated...